PREMIER: ARMENIA SHOULD ENHANCE ITS RESISTIVE CAPACITY TO WITHSTAND WORLD CRISIS EFFECTS

ARKA
March 23, 2009

YEREVAN, March 23. /ARKA/. Armenia should enhance its resistive
capacity to withstand the effects of the world crisis, Armenian
Premier Tigran Sargsyan said.

For this, the state should strengthen its infrastructures, help
small and medium business, provide assistance to the companies that
experience temporary difficulties, Sargsyan told journalists after
the discussions on the global crisis and Armenia with involvement of
Armenian President and political party leader Friday.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan discussed issues on influence of
the global financial and economic crisis on Armenia in Sports and
Concert Complex in Yerevan.

According to the Premier, assistance should be provided first of all
to the companies employing thousands of people and able to increase
their export potential, as well as to the companies that use domestic
agricultural products and their own resources.

This assistance will substantially improve the resisting capacity of
the country, the Premier said.

He also stressed that the government social programs target at easing
the difficulties faced by the socially insecure families.

These were the second presidential discussions with representatives of
the country’s political parties in such a format. The first discussions
were held in 2008 on Karabakh problem.