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- Chair of Committee on Human Rights of National Council of Austria Nikolaus Scherak Hosted in Parliament
News 17.06.2024
On June 17, the Head of the NA Friendship Group Armenia-Austria Shirak Torosyan the member of the Friendship Group, the Chair of the NA Standing Committee on European Integration Arman Yeghoyan met with the Chair of the Committee on Human Rights of the National Council of Austria Nikolaus Scherak. Welcoming the guest, Shirak Torosyan noted the significant progress of the Armenian-Austrian relations in recent years. “Austria is very important for us as a key country of the European Union. ... - Parliamentary hearings to be held by decision of Standing Committee on European Integration
News 17.06.2024
On June 21 at 11:00, by the decision of the Standing Committee on European Integration parliamentary hearings will be held in the NA Session Hall on the theme on Proposal of Holding Referendum for Presenting Armenia’s Membership Bid to the European Union. The Chair of the Standing Committee on European Integration Arman Yeghoyan informed that the initiative of holding hearings was presented by the Platform of democratic forces and the civil society. ... - Regular coordination meeting of Parliamentary Support Partners held
News 15.06.2024
On the initiative of the NA Staff, the regular outgoing meeting of the Coordination of Parliamentary Support Partners was held in Tsaghkadzor on June 15. The RA NA Chief of Staff, Secretary General Davit Arakelyan mentioned in his welcoming speech that such contacts are the guarantee of effective joint work. He thanked the international partners and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to Armenia Andrew Turner for their willingness to participate in the meetings. Da... - RA Prime Minister’s speech during debate of 2023 state budget execution report
News 13.06.2024
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan delivered the final speech on the 2023 state budget execution report at the NA sitting on June 13. The Prime Minister first referred to the events that took place the previous day in Baghramyan Avenue, noting that the participants of the movement led by the Catholicos of All Armenians and the former President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan attacked the policemen. “The reaction of the police was legitimate and profe... - Parliament debates issue of electing a candidate for judge of Court of Cassation
News 13.06.2024
At the sitting of June 13, the National Assembly debated the issue of electing a candidate for the judge of the Judicial Staff of Corruption Crime Investigation of Anti-Corruption Chamber of Court of Cassation. The Supreme Judicial Council nominated Armen Danielyan, Rubik Mkhitaryan and Manvel Shahverdyan for the above-mentioned vacancy. The NA Vice President Ruben Rubinyan, moderating the sitting, reminded that ... - Parliament begins debate of annual report on execution of RA 2023 state budget
News 12.06.2024
During 2023, a tax revenue index of 2 trillion 222 billion AMD was provided, which was 23.9% of the gross domestic product (GDP). The nominal level of the revenues or the absolute number of taxes collected does not mean anything by itself, that is why we consider it in relation to the total value created by all of us during the last year, GDP, and compare it with the same indicator of the previous year to record progress or regression. The RA Minister of Finance Vahe Hovhannisyan said this whi... - Government members speak about execution of 2023 state budget
News 12.06.2024
Among the difficult challenges of the RA Government in 2023 were the issues of social support for our compatriots forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh. Financial allocations in this direction were one of the important issues of the 2023 state budget. The total sum of expenses for the settlement of humanitarian and social problems regarding the forcibly displaced persons was about 39 billion AMD: The RA Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Khachatryan said this during the debate of the annual repor... - Several problems existing for our compatriots forcibly displaced from NK to get appropriate solutions
News 12.06.2024
The draft law on Making Amendment and Addendum to the law on Legal Persons’ State Registration, the Legal Persons’ Separated Sub-divisions, State Accounting of the Institutions and Individual Entrepreneurs and the package of the enclosed presented draft laws was debated in the second reading at June 12 extraordinary sitting of the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs. The key rapporteur, the RA Deputy Minister of Justice Armenuhi Harutyunyan informed that there were no amendme... - It is established by initiative opportunity of moving pension savings formed in NK accumulative system to pension funds functioning in RA
News 11.06.2024
On June 11, the National Assembly began the work of the regular sittings. The deputies approved the draft agenda of the NA regular sittings, after which the debate of the drafts began. The debate of several agenda items will be held in the special procedure: their second reading will be held after the adoption in the first reading within twenty-four hours. The legislative package on Making Amendment and Addendum to the law on Legal Persons’ State Registration, the Legal Persons’ Separated... - Membership in Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to enable RA to participate in major regional investment projects
News 11.06.2024
The objective of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is to promote sustainable economic development, create tangible value and improve infrastructure connectivity in the region by investing in infrastructure and other productive sectors, promote regional cooperation by working closely with other multilateral and bilateral development institutions to address challenges. At the regular sitting of the National Assembly on June 11, the draft law on Ratifying the Agreement on the A... - It is proposed to give an opportunity to libraries to carry out certain economic activity
News 11.06.2024
It is proposed by the draft to establish electronic and public libraries, cultural educational, information centre (loft) concepts, to fix the demand of replenishing the fund of the Armenian studies of the foreign important libraries. The RA Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Alfred Kocharyan informed this. At June 11 sitting, the parliament in the first reading debated the draft law stipulating addenda and amendments to the law on Libraries and Library Work. Th... - Parliament debates draft law on approval of 2023 annual report on implementation of 2017-2020 programme of state property privatization
News 11.06.2024
During the reporting period, the state-owned shares of one company included in the programme were privatized by tender, and the state-owned shares of another company were privatized in the form of direct sale. The Head of the State Property Management Committee of the RA Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Arnak Avetisyan said this while presenting the draft law on approving the 2023 annual report on the implementation of the 2017-2020 programme of privatization of state ... - Business entities to be obliged to implement the requirement to provide the area with video surveillance systems after the package of drafts coming into force
News 11.06.2024
As a result of the adoption of the legislative initiative, the business entities will be obliged to provide the entrance of the facility and all the sides consecutively and high quality with video surveillance systems having the possibility of shooting in dark hours and preserve the video at least for 15 days. It refers to the banks, the loan organizations, the pawnshops, the pharmacies, the point with separated entrance for foreign currency exchange, the postal communication facilities,... - Legislative initiative aimed at introduction of automated accounting system of state duty
News 11.06.2024
The purpose of the adoption of the drafts is the introduction of the automated accounting system of the state duty and the improvement of the exchange of information on the state duty between the state bodies and the accounting electronic process. The Deputy Chairman of the RA State Revenue Committee (SRC) Artur Manukyan said this. At June 11 NA next sitting, the package of the draft law on Making Amendments and Addenda to the law on State Duty and the enclosed presented draft laws was de... - Police service to be established adopting draft with modern and international standard weapons
News 11.06.2024
Within the framework of reforms, the police will develop as a specialized structure in four pillar directions, and the Police Guard is among them, and its formation was designed by the Government programme and with a sectoral strategy. The RA Deputy Minister of the Internal Affairs Arpine Sargsyan said this at June 11 regular sitting, presenting the draft law on Police Guard and the enclosed presented package of draft laws. The new status, the structure, the problems and the functions of ... - Legislative initiatives debated in second reading endorsed in Committee
News 10.06.2024
At June 10 extraordinary sitting of the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs, two legislative initiatives were debated in the second reading. As the Chairman of the RA State Revenue Committee Rustam Badasyan presented, it is proposed by the draft law on Gaming Activity Regulation and the package of the enclosed ones to define 10% the rate of the income tax in case of big win exceeding 5 million drams, the tax agent’s system will also work. The taxation of the very wins will be regulate... - In case of improvement of health, it will be possible to be included again in pension accumulation system
News 10.06.2024
According to the current regulations, when a person falls ill with the list of diseases defined by the Government, he applies and receives all the money he has accumulated, and then, in case of health improvement, does not have the opportunity to be reinstated in the pension accumulation system. With this draft, we propose to create an opportunity for such citizens to be included in the system again if they apply. This was stated by the RA Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Davit Khac... - It is proposed to form effective legislative bases in the context of combatting cybercrime
News 07.06.2024
In recent years, increase of cybercrimes is noticed, in terms of effectively fight against cross-border crime and this crime are often growing the inter-state cooperation is important. The RA Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Arpine Sargsyan said this. The RA Government proposes addenda and amendments in the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes and a number of enclosed laws. The issue was debated at the sitting of the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs. It was noted ... - New regulations aimed at protection of rights of our compatriots forcibly displaced from NK
News 07.06.2024
The regulations being proposed by the legislative package refer to the execution of the rights of the citizens forcibly displaced from Nagorno Karabakh (NK). An opportunity was given to recognize in the Republic of Armenia also the submitting of the application and the registration of the legal person in the term established by law adopted on November 22, 2023. The scheduled time was January 31, 2023. It is proposed to extend that term until December 1, 2024 giving an opportunity to the i... - Addendum being proposed to law on RA Investigative Committee debated
News 07.06.2024
The RA Ministry of Internal Affairs formed a Forensic Science Department in its staff already a few decades ago, which operates today. The purpose for the Department formation was to support the preliminary investigation and investigation. In the conditions of the criminal procedure legislation development, the Ministry of Internal Affairs does not carry out the abovementioned two functions. In such conditions the existence of the Forensic Science Department was not considered expedient. The D... - Agreement on Deepening military-technical cooperation between Armenia and Greece approved by Committee
News 07.06.2024
The goal of the Agreement is to expand deepen the military-technical cooperation process existing between the two countries: The RA Deputy Minister of Finance Arman Sargsyan informed. At July 7 sitting of the NA Standing Committee on Defense and Security, the draft law on Ratifying the Agreement on Military-Technical Cooperation between the RA Government and the Government of the Hellenic Republic was debated. According to the key rapporteur, the Agreement defines the directions of c... - Hakob Arshakyan: The developed satellite launch in Armenia proved that the science in our country has future, and that future becomes a reality only due to efforts
News 07.06.2024
On June 7, the NA Vice President Hakob Arshakyan and the deputy of the Civil Contract Faction Hakob Aslanyan attended the solemn opening ceremony of the exhibition dedicated to the first –domestic satellite of Armenia, Hayasat – 1, held in Museum of Science and Technology in the Engineering City. Welcoming the attendees, Hakob Arshakyan noted that a few years ago, when an attempt was made to regulate the sphere, and the parliament was debating the law on Space Activities, there was skept... - It is proposed to introduce automated accounting system of state duty
News 05.06.2024
The purpose of the amendments and addenda to the law on State Duty and the enclosed ones is the introduction of the automated accounting system of the state duty and the improvement of the exchange of information on the state duty between state bodies and the accounting electronic process. At the sitting of the NA Standing Committee on Economic Affairs the Deputy Chairman of the RA State Revenue Committee (SRC) Artur Manukyan presented for debate in the first reading the new regulations. ... - Legislative package regulating the gaming sphere debated in second reading
News 05.06.2024
At June 5 sitting, the package on Regulation of Game Activity and the enclosed bills was debated in the second reading. The Chairman of the RA State Revenue Committee (SRC) Rustam Badasyan presented it. According to him, the ensuring of transparency by distinct digital means of the game sphere and the control organization is on the basis of the initiative regulation. The rapporteur informed that debates were organized on the package with the participation of the representatives of the aut... - In 2023 Ministry of Foreign Affairs implements 6 programmes with 15 measures
News 04.06.2024
In 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs implemented 6 programmes with 15 measures: The actual performance was 25bln 57mlnAMD. The expenditures increased towards the primary planned one by 41.2%, the performance towards the specified plan was 99.5%. The growth of the expenditures was mainly conditioned by the programme ensuring the housing conditions of the embassies abroad. The RA Deputy Minister Vahan Sirunyan presented these data at June 4 joint sitting of the NA Standing Committees on Fore... - Alen Simonyan meets with the President of National Assembly of Republic of Slovenia Urška Klakočar Zupančič in Slovenia
News 04.06.2024
On June 4, the delegation led by the RA NA President Alen Simonyan met with the President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia Urška Klakočar Zupančič within the framework of the official visit to Slovenia. The interlocutors highly appreciated the relations appreciated between Armenia and Slovenia, underscoring the importance of parliamentary diplomacy in the effective cooperation of the two countries. The security situation in the South Caucasus and ... - Performance of State Budget for 2023 in the framework of EEU integration process debated
News 04.06.2024
In 2023, within the framework of the EEU integration process the works done under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance, in general were aimed at the cooperation in purchases, macro-economic, tax, customs policy, as well as the accounting and audit activity spheres: The RA Minister of Finance Vahan Sirunyan said. At June 4 joint sitting of Standing Committees on Regional and Eurasian Integration and on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs the annual report on RA State Budget Execu... - Package of drafts of Law on Ensuring Equality and Protection from Discrimination and related laws debated
News 04.06.2024
Ensuring equal treatment of each person and equal opportunities to exercise rights, freedoms and responsibilities, as well as prevention of discrimination against each person and protection of the right not to be discriminated against, is the focus of our attention, as well as of the ruling Faction: This was stated by the Deputy Chair of the RA NA Standing Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs Rustam Bakoyan, during the work debate of the draft law on Ensuring Equality and... - AIIB membership provides an opportunity for Armenia to participate in major regional investment projects
News 03.06.2024
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was established in 2015 in China. It is a multilateral development bank whose aim is to promote sustainable economic development, create prosperity and improve infrastructure, and promote regional development in the Asia and Oceania region: The RA Deputy Minister of Economy Narek Hovakimyan noted, presenting the draft law on Ratifying the Agreement on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to the NA Standing Committee on Financial-Credit and Bu... - Annual report on 2023 activity of RA Audit Chamber presented
News 03.06.2024
In 2023, the Audit Chamber of the Republic of Armenia operated on the basis of a three-part activity plan approved in accordance with legal regulations: The Chairman of the Audit Chamber Atom Janjughazyan said this at the sitting of the NA Standing Committee on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs on June 3. The Chairman of the Audit Chamber informed that 40 audits were carried out in ten state bodies in order to form a conclusion on the implementation of the 2022 state budget. "In all ...
