Yerevan hosts National Competitiveness Fund Board of Trustees meetingNovember 16, 2009 - 10:42 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Chairman of National Competitiveness Fund Board of Trustees, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan addressed the 13th session of the Board to briefed on the outcomes of RA government's anti-crisis efforts for 2009, those programs envisaged under FY 2010 State budget exercise, as well as on the impressions of the Arm Tech 2009 business forum, the government's information center reported. "The concept of competition has been changed in the modern world. The rules adopted by industrial societies can no longer work in post-industrial competitive societies. Modern technologies can solve many tasks, including social problems. By penetrating into the sphere of social relationship, modern technologies are changing systems of values in societies. This phenomenon should be the subject of serious debates among us," he said. "Which is the right formula for ensuring a spasmodic development in Armenia and rallying pan-Armenian organizations round it?" This is what the Prime Minister proposed to discuss at the meeting. Tigran Sargsyan evoked an idea voiced during the proceedings of the Arm Tech - 2009 congress, which reads as follows: "Today is the past, and the future is tomorrow." "This makes us work faster and harder as the concept of the Armenian world needs some refreshing." The meeting went on to discuss the agenda focusing on domestic and worldwide economic development-related issues. Irish National University professors Bob Kitchin and Mark Boyle, as well as Munich-based sport and tourism experts Peter Gothwald and Franck Daniel Ehrsam outlined such strategies which might be used in cooperating with the Diaspora, as well as the possibilities for turning into a new tourism product those sports events that can be practiced in the highlands of Sevan region. Other agenda items were the planning of design work for the pan-Armenian network and the reporting on Pan-Armenian Bank's program, as well as an array of issues of current interest to the Fund. 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 | Scholz hopes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty will be signed this year German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hopes that a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed this year. Ucom equips four bus stops in Ijevan with free Wi-Fi Ucom now provides free Wi-Fi coverage in smart bus stops in four communities of Ijevan. Armenians stage more campaigns against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan Protesters blocked more roads across Armenia on Friday, April 26 in continuing attempts to scuttle territorial concessions to Azerbaijan. Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia. |