ANDRANIK MARGARIAN: REFORMS IN NKR SHOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH THOSE
IMPLEMENTED IN ARMENIA

YEREVAN, APRIL 1, NOYAN TAPAN. At the march 30 sitting of the standing
intergovernmental commission on cooperation between the governments of
the RA and the NKR, the draft program on long-term cooperation between
the two governments was discussed. According to the RA Government
Information and PR Department, the draft had been developed by the
commission’s working group, after which it was submitted to the
respective ministries and departments of the both sides for developing
subprograms for various fields based on the main provisions of the
program. The RA Prime Minister Andranik Margarian noted that under the
supervision of the the commission’s two co-chairmen – the RA Minister
of Territorial Administration and Coordination of Infrastructure
Activities and the NKR Prime Minister, consderable work on drafting a
joint action plan was done last year with the aim of coordinating
reforms being implemented in various spheres in the RA and the
NKR. The PM pointed out that no extra resources were allocated from
the RA state budget for the program – all the programs will be funded
from the NKR state budget. A. Margarian stated that the reforms in the
NKR should be consistent with those implemented in Armenia. He
underlined the necessity for developing medium and long-term
expenditure programs for the NKR as well, which will allow to form the
budget of a given year an accordance with the target programs and to
specify to some extent the expenditures and priorities for the next
few years. The NKR Prime Minister Anushavan Danielian also pointed out
that thanks to voluminous work done by the commission, the ministries
and departments are now prepared to carry out the program activities.

The program envisages such activities as providing assistance to work
out the long-term program on civil service introduction and
development within the framework of NKR state system reforms program,
the agriculture development strategy and activities aimed at its
implementation, the natural resources management and poverty reduction
program, to develop the information technologies industry and attract
foreign investments to the sphere, to introduce a new system of
knowledge evaluation in the general education, to improve the health
care services and implement anti-epidemic programs in the NKR, as well
as to create a community system of social service provision. The
cooperation will also include the development of programs on
protection and restoration of historical and cultural monuments, or
mutual visits of teams and companies, the organization of joint
symposiums, consultations, etc.