PRIME MINISTER: SMALL AND AVERAGE BUSINESS SHOULD BE SUPPORTED BY STATE

Panorama.am
19:55 19/06/2008

Today the Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan invited a
briefing to make four announcements on reforms of customs and tax
administration. According to the Prime Minister those announcements
are based on the meeting-discussion at president 20 days ago.

Today the Prime Minister announced that one of the points is to form
a council dealing with the reforms.

The council has already been formed and the ministers of finance
and economy are involved in it, also. The objective of the council
is to coordinate the reform, to control them and be in contact with
the public representatives and business ones.

T. Sargsyan said that a monitoring group will be formed leaded by
Aram Gharibyan. According to the Prime Minister the group is ready
to hear all the recommendations and observations of people and to
direct the reforms based on the discussion round them.

The third announcement made by the Prime Minister concerns the support
of the state to the small and average business representatives. And
the fourth one is about support and trust from public and mass media
in general.