NKR PM: ESTABLISHMENT OF MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL ECONOMIC AND HUMANITARIAN LINKS WILL PROMOTE RELAXATION OF TENSION BETWEEN THE REGION’S COUNTRIES
DeFacto Agency, Armenia
June 22, 2006
The establishment of mutually beneficial economic and humanitarian
links, development of scientific-educational and cultural cooperation
will promote relaxation of tension between the region’s countries,
the NKR PM Anoushavan Danielyan stated, while opening an international
scientific conference titled "Nagorno Karabakh Republic: Past, Present,
Future" in Stepanakert.
The PM stated the amount of investments in the Nagorno Karabakh economy
increased year by year. "Due to foreign investments we have managed
to modernize industrial process in a number of branches of economic
complex", Anoushavan Danielyan said.
According to A. Danielyan, last year the amount of industrial
production was increased by 3, 7 times as compared with 2000. The
amount of industrial output produced in the Republic only for the
first quarter of the current year surpasses the level of 1999. For
the last three years the state budget’s own revenues increased by 43,
2 % on average. The amount of the production exported from the NKR
has been noticeably increased, making $ 38 millions.
Anoushavan Danielyan remarked the population’s money incomes increased
by almost 2, 2 times compared with 2000. Teachers’ salary increased
by approximately 70 %, that of the health care and culture employees –
by 30 %.
2006 state budget’s expenditures for social needs increased almost
by 30 % compared with last year. In 2005 there were about 3 500 new
jobs in various branches of the Republic economy.