  PM deems political society impossible in Armenia without SMEs April 6, 2012 - 16:39 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian government headed by Prime Minster Tigran Sargysan held a meeting of the council on small and medium-size enterprise development. “The council’s mission is to promote development of SMEs in our country. The issue bears a political context as building political society is impossible without SMEs,” government’s press service quotes Prime Minster as saying. In the framework of the assistance extended to SMEs, Armenian government will subsidize purchase of electronic signatures, due to which economic entities will pay AMD 3500 instead of AMD 13500.   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 Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP  Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan.Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”.41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience.Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. |
