DISCUSSIONS OVER ISSUES OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY TO KICK OFF NEXT WEEK

ARMENPRESS
Jan 15, 2009

YEREVAN, JANUARY 15, ARMENPRESS: Next week discussions will start over
the issues and activities in all the branches of Armenian industrial
policy. Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan said today at the
session of the government that still in 2008 an assignment was given to
the economy minister to discuss industrial policy. It will be conducted
this year and will include companies functioning in the sphere. The
subject of discussions will be chemical, light and food industries.

"Naturally the public will be informed about the state policy in the
sphere of industry. On one hand it will promote the involvement of
private investments, on the other hand will clarify the state policy
in these branches," T. Sargsyan said.

The main work in this case will fall on the Agriculture Ministry,
Energy and Natural Resources Ministry, Economy Ministry. "We have
also registered an important fact – we feel that there is a lack of
project-managers. Many ideas are not realized because of simple reason
– we do not have heads of program implementation. In this respect we
must pay attention towards filling this flaw," the prime minister said.

Tigran Sargsyan also applied to the ministries to take under the
limelight the pace of work of the private sphere and reveal those
obviously beneficial programs which may essentially promote the
increase of resistance of the economy.