New Armenian government to try to lessen corruption risks - premier
24.10.2016,
11:58
Karen Karapetyan, Armenian prime minister, speaking Saturday for a number of TV companies and asked about steps to be taken to combat corruption in the country, said: “I am confident that in the fight against corruption it is strictly necessary to maximally eliminate the environment that creates the possibility, because by establishing a third party to combat corruption, we cannot eliminate corruption, if the environment itself does not change.”
YEREVAN, October 24. /ARKA/. Karen Karapetyan, Armenian prime minister, speaking Saturday for a number of TV companies and asked about steps to be taken to combat corruption in the country, said: “I am confident that in the fight against corruption it is strictly necessary to maximally eliminate the environment that creates the possibility, because by establishing a third party to combat corruption, we cannot eliminate corruption, if the environment itself does not change.”
“And to my mind, we wrote in detail what actions we are going to take in order to minimize the possibility of corruption in the tax and customs spheres as to the government’s decisions, in the field of public procurements, in the field of foreign financing, as well as in terms of providing clear and equal conditions for businesses.”
Karapetyan said that Anticorruption Council, which has been set up by his predecessor, Hovik Abrahamyan, is an important structure, “because we need to state that the existing structures and the environment we have is far being ideal; therefore, a structure is to be created in a bid to consolidate, summarize, diagnose and find specific decisions.”
“We are now trying to involve the representatives of civil society so that the field is open. The members of the government, frankly speaking, are so busy in their daily duties or ought to be so, and may not get external signals. Here is the point.” --0----
“And to my mind, we wrote in detail what actions we are going to take in order to minimize the possibility of corruption in the tax and customs spheres as to the government’s decisions, in the field of public procurements, in the field of foreign financing, as well as in terms of providing clear and equal conditions for businesses.”
Karapetyan said that Anticorruption Council, which has been set up by his predecessor, Hovik Abrahamyan, is an important structure, “because we need to state that the existing structures and the environment we have is far being ideal; therefore, a structure is to be created in a bid to consolidate, summarize, diagnose and find specific decisions.”
“We are now trying to involve the representatives of civil society so that the field is open. The members of the government, frankly speaking, are so busy in their daily duties or ought to be so, and may not get external signals. Here is the point.” --0----
