  New Agriculture Minister assumes duties January 10, 2011 - 12:59 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has introduced newly appointed Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan, who replaced Gerasim Alaverdyan at the post. “The agricultural sector produced poor results in 2010, what badly damaged the economic indices in all. Fluctuating prices and inflation affected the population’s level of living,” the PM said. He also emphasized that the Ministry will have to work a lot to implement the essential reforms.   Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion.   Partner news |  Latest news Armenia border residents dissatisfied with delimitation  Residents Kirants are dissatisfied with the results of the delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.“Great success”: Pashinyan pleased with new border protocol Pashinyan has described the signing by Armenia and Azerbaijan of a protocol on delimitation in Tavush as “a great success”.Armenia, Azerbaijan sign protocol on demarcation coordinates Armenia’s government took on May 15 another step towards handing over four border areas to Azerbaijan.U.S. warns Georgia not to side with Moscow against the west Georgia has been warned by the U.S. not to become an adversary of the west by falling back in line with Moscow. |
