SERZH SARGSYAN: "THIS YEAR WE ARE OBLIGED TO INCREASE TENFOLD ATTENTION TO VILLAGE"

Noyan Tapan
Feb 16, 2009

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. On February 14, Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan convened a working consultation to discuss issues
regarding RA regions’ 2008 socio-economic development and summing
up the implemented programs, revelation of current problems, and
coordination of the work to be done in the coming months and raising
their efficiency. According to the report of the RA President’s Press
Office, RA NA Speaker, Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Ministers
of Energy and Natural Resources, Agriculture, Urban Development,
Governors took part in the consultation.

Opening the conversation, S. Sargsyan made a number of observations,
drawing attention of government and regional government bodies heads to
doing the planned work in the proper term. He considered inadmissible
decelerations connected with snow cleaning work both in the capital
and in regional centers and country’s other communities. "There is
a policy in some state government links I do not like at all, and
we should stop that policy once and for all. It is when we attend
to problems after they are revealed, we go behind the problems,"
S. Sargsyan mentioned.

He also touched upon the delays of salary payment in some comprehensive
schools lately. S. Sargsyan gave an instruction to exclude such
manifestations.

Touching upon preparation for spring agricultural works, S. Sargsyan
said: "We are obliged this year to increase tenfold our attention
to the villages, our villagers, those creating production and raw
materials. In that issue both my attention and the attention of the
government will be great, and we should be able, including here,
to mitigate the world economic crisis consequences on our economy."

S. Sargsyan gave an instruction to work in the direction of
introduction of concrete criteria of estimating efficiency of
territorial government bodies’ and their heads’ work. Governors were
instructed to be more active and to become mediators between, on
the one hand, programs of small and medium-sized business development
financed by the government and local business initiatives and programs,
on the other hand, at that considering creation of new jobs as a
priority goal.

Touching upon large-scale construction work in Shirak and Lori this
year, the President instructed to study correspondence of possibilities
of manpower in those regions to the volume of construction work and
to involve other regions’ residents in that work if necessary.