FOUR STATEMENTS MADE BY THE PRIME MINISTER

Hayots Ashkhar Daily
Published on June 20, 2008
Armenia

The briefing of the Prime Minister took place in the government
yesterday during which he came out with four statements.

"The first statement that I would like to make is as follows: it was
envisaged by the program that by the leadership of the Republic’s
Prime Minister a Highest Counsel of the new culture of investment of
income bureaucracy will be established, we would like to inform the
public that the Counsel has already been set up.

The task of the Counsel is to coordinate tax and customs reforms, to
control that process and to be in permanent contact with the public
and different organizations of business sphere.

The second statement that I would like to make is that a monitoring
group, headed by Aram Gharibyan will be attached to the Highest
Counsel. Our citizens can express all the issues of concern by
telephone or email, which will become a matter of discussion for the
Highest Counsel. By this we will ensure mutual contact with the public,
inform them how we implement our complex program, what positive or
negative consequences we observe during the process of the reforms.

The third statement is about our most important priority. Which is
to make favorable conditions for the development of small and medium
business. The latter will be a partner for the state and will feel
complete support of the state. So we announce that the territorial
centers of the development of small and medium business, that function
in all the provinces will support small and medium business in the
investment of the tax and customs bureaucracy program.

The fourth and maybe the foremost statement that I would like to make
is that I sincerely ask for the support of the Mass Media and the
Public, to help us implement our program. These reforms will become
reality only in case you trust us," Tigran Sargsyan said.