Armenia: PM reports on budget overperformance in Q1April 2, 2019 - 14:05 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday, April 2 met the chairman of the State Revenue Committee, David Ananyan. In a Facebook post published immediately after the meeting, Pashinyan revealed that the budget collection plan for Q1 was overdone by AMD 11.4 billion. According to him, Armenia’s reserve fund totals AMD 9.4 billion, which means that budget overperformance in the first three months of 2019 exceeded the reserve fund by AMD 2 billion. In March 2019, 8․361 million more fiscal receipts were printed against the same period last year, and 20․71 million more receipts were issued in Q1, Pashinyan added. 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 | Government reveals details from Pashinyan’s meeting in border village Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has met with a group of residents of a border village in Armenia’s northern Tavush province Narek Manasyan wins European Boxing Championships silver for Armenia Armenia’s Narek Manasyan (92kg) won Armenia’s second silver medal at the European Boxing Championships 2024 on April 28. Blinken urges Azerbaijan to continue negotiations with Armenia Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has urged Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to continue negotiations with Armenia. Pashinyan, Blinken talk Armenia-U.S. ties over the phone Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on April 28, Pashinyan’s office reports. |