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 administration’s…
ARF-D Member of Parliament Lilit Galstyan in response to her ARP (Armenia’s Republican Party) colleague Vardan Ayvazyan’s remarks about emigration being a positive development because of the foreign transfers coming in the country, said that perhaps this assumption could apply in countries such as China where the population is large and the export of labor…
Www.1in.am reports that ARF-D Member of Parliament Lilit Galstyan stated that even if some reforms have been made still the bill titled “On Amending the Law on the Examination of the Influence on the Environment” is in violation of the 1998 Aarhus Convention, depriving the people of the rights regarding access to information, public participation…
“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 state…
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 budget…
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 63.000…
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 itself…
The Bureau of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation issued a communiqué today calling on all Armenians to take part in fundraising activities of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund. Below is the translated text of the announcement: The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund has already begun its annual fundraising efforts in Armenia and the Diaspora. It will culminate in the…
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 it…
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 government…
