Armenian parliament approves government’s program for 2008-2012

YEREVAN, May 4. /ARKA/. With 88 to three, the RA Parliament approved the Government’s program of action for 2008-2012.

The Government worked out the program in the context of the National Security Strategy of Armenia, the Poverty Reduction Strategic Program and the election programs of the President, the coalition-forming parties (the Republican Party of Armenia, the Prospering Party of Armenia, the Country of Law Party and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, ARF), as well as the principal provisions of the Agreement on Political Coalition.
 
The concept of the government’s program is based on five pivots – efficiency and security in the rapidly changing world, preservation of spiritual and cultural values, and human freedoms.

In presenting the program, RA Premier Tigran Sargssyan presented stressed that the Government will work to ensure high rates of macroeconomic stability and economic growth.
“The Government’s role in economy will be essential, however, restricted to creating a favourable environment for the private sector,” the Premier said.

The government says it will try to achieve an ambitious goal of making Armenia a regional centre of business and investments.

The program largely focuses on poverty reduction issues as well.

“The shortest way to solve the problem of poverty is to make needy citizens actively involved in the country’s economic and political life,” Sargssyan said.

Тhe Government will keep focus on the problem highlighted by the former Government, namely, the gap between the average pensions and average wages, which led to a tangible gap between the living standards of employed citizens and pensioners.

The new Government will also focus on the development of a national system of environmental protection, people’s access to cultural resources and aviation modernization. --0--