The European Union has adopted a package of €41 million to support civil society, regional development and agriculture in Armenia. This assistance is being provided in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy.
Prosperous Armenia faction leader Naira Zohrabyan has just declared that the party will boycott today’s vote to ratify a number of energy treaties with Russia.
The special session is scheduled to last until 8pm.
Both grants are part of the Health and Social Reform Assistance Agreement that USAID signed with the Armenian government in September 2013.
Prosperous Armenia MP Naira Zohrabyan lambasted the government’s decision to sell its remaining 20% share in HayRusGazArd to Russia’s Gazprom as the policy of a ‘serf’.
At today’s special session, Armenia’s National Assembly is debating the ratification of a number of international treaties including a controversial treaty signed on December 2 in Yerevan between the governments of Armenia and Russia on future natural gas imports and the sale of remaining Armenian government shares in HayRusGazArd to Russia.
Authorities have detained more than 50 businessmen and local officials in the largest anti-bribery probe in Turkey this decade, reports Reuters
Heritage Party MP today pointedly asked Armenian Energy Minister Armen Movsisyan if the sale of the government’s remaining 20% in HayRusGazArd to Russia’s Gazprom wasn't in violation of the country’s constitution.
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