RA PRIME MINISTER RECEIVES EUROPEAN UNION ADVISORY GROUP MEMBERS

Noyan Tapan
Jan 19, 2010

YEREVAN, JANUARY 19, NOYAN TAPAN. RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian,
on January 19, receiving the European Union Advisory Group in Armenia
led by Raul de Luzenberger, attached importance to Group’s traditional
meetings giving a possibility to sum up the work done and to outline
the future actions.

According to the RA government Information and Public Relations
Department, at the meeting, the interlocutors touched upon the
anti-corruption policy carried on by the RA government, reforms carried
out in the tax and customs spheres, in particular, development of
a transparent government system. The sides discussed the work being
done in the direction of signing a Free Trade Agreement, free goods
transportation, steps aimed at solution of problems of introduction
of the GSP+ system.

The interlocutors touched upon protection of intellectual property,
as well as development possibilities of small and medium-sized
enterprises. They emphasized the importance of the work proceeding
in the sphere of national debt management, strengthening of the
respective structures of the Ministry of Finance, in that context
attached importance to issues of training and retraining of specialists
in the state government sphere.

T. Sargsian expressing gratitude to the Group members for the important
professional consultation, said that separate meetings are planned
for solving some problems, for more exact commissions to be given.