On January 13, representatives from the Armenian National Congress, the Liberal Democrats and ARF-D parties participated in a meeting with the Press, co-organized by the Armenian Center of Political and International Studies and the US Institute for Democracy that was held at the Congress hotel. According to www.azatutyun.am ARF-D Member of Parliament Artsvik Minasyan...
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Armenia’s leading opposition groups voiced skepticism on Wednesday over the formation of a new anti-corruption state body charged with verifying income declarations of senior state officials. The state Commission on the Ethics of High-Ranking Officials consists of five members appointed by President Serzh Sargsyan upon the recommendation of Armenia’s prime minister, parliament speaker, prosecutor-general...
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“The gap between the announced targets and the delivered results is reflected on the deterioration of the living conditions, the fast increase of emigration, the extremely heavy socio-phsycological state of the population, the existence of economical monopolies and the growth of unemployment” said to 168 Zham newspaper ARF-D Member of Parliament Artsvik Minasyan. He...
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ARF-D Member of Parliament Ara Nranyan referring to the government’s export industry plan stated that the Party’s strategic plan on encouraging exports has been introduced in 2005 covering a wide range of public policy starting from the engagement of diplomatic missions until the improvement of tax and budget policies as well as the state...
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“It is possible to play games with the numbers and the data but I believe that we must have concrete criteria. How much does the proposed budget affect the Armenian citizen’s living conditions, how much does his living standard change, improve?” said ARF-D Parliamentary Faction’s Secretary Artashes Shahbazyan during the discussions about the 2012...
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ARF-D Member of Parliament and Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on Financial, Credit and Budgetary Affairs Artsvik Minasyan stated that the 2012 budget can be already considered failed and that ARF-D will vote against it. Minasyan said that the 48% target about employment should be raised to 65%, the ratio between the state...
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On November 15, the Parliament of Armenia held an extraordinary session in order to discuss ARF-D’s proposition about raising the minimum wage. ARF-D proposed that the increase should take in account the inflation level, the minimum living budget or the market basket as well as the average wage and setting the minimum wage to...
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Discussing in the Parliament the 2012 state budget, ARF-D Member of Parliament Ara Nranyan said that the government’s policy on this issue is causing a crisis itself. Nranyan brought the example of agriculture and said that if a state chooses not to fund the farmer, the farm business and the investor then the state...
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ARF-D has raised this issue even since it was part of the coalition government and furthermore it comes from the Party’s ideology said ARF-D Member of Parliament Hrayr Karapetyan stressing that this is not a pre-electoral rhetoric for ARF-D. He also reminded that ARF-D’s bill on minimum wage’s increase doesn’t contradict the Constitution where...
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Nranyan: ARF-D will assess the draft law on taxation after the final version is out ARF-D Member of the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs of the Parliament Ara Nranyan stated that ARF-D reserves the right to assess the draft law on taxation after the government publicizes the final version. Nranyan also said that the...
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