Paper says emigration “best-implemented program” of 2012December 28, 2012 - 11:54 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Despite the current social and economic situation in Armenia, high poverty and unemployment rate, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan hailed the results recorded in 2012 as successful both in politics and economy, Hraparak daily says. “Though it’s been a difficult year, through joint efforts we managed to fulfill all of the goals set,” Prime Minister Sargsyan said, voicing hope for 2013 to yield more progress. It stands to reason that the struggle against Prosperous Armenia was one of the toughest challenges for Prime Minister Sargsyan, with the large emigration flows being the “best-implemented program of 2012”, the paper says. Top stories The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says. Defense Minister Suren Papikyan has visited the southern Armenian province of Syunik, the Defense Ministry reported on March 18. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |