At a government consultative hearing today on the North-South Road Corridor project , Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan lamented that he’s heard more complaints about the multimillion-dollar infrastructure project than solutions to the numerous issues preventing it completion and ensuring its quality level.
On July 9, in Yerevan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hosted legendary French-Armenian footballer Youri Djorkaeff, who was part of the French national squad that won the 1998 World Championship and the 2000 European Championship.
The protesters said the plant, being built by ArmOil CJSC tens of meters away from residential houses, posed serious health and environmental risks to the area and local inhabitants.
As part of the NATO summit on July 11 and 12 in Brussels, Pashinyan will deliver a speech at a meeting of the government heads of NATO and non-NATO states participating in NATO’s Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan.
Romania’s president fired the country’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor after months of escalating conflict between her and the governing Social Democratic Party, local media reported Monday.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has thrown cold water on a proposal submitted by two Republican Party of Armenia MPs to set the income tax rate at 20% for those making more than AMD 500,000 a month, and 25% for those earning more than that.
Artsakh National Assembly President Ashot Ghoulyan today welcomed a delegation from Armenia headed by Minister of Justice Artak Zeynalyan, stressing the importance of such meetings between officials from the new government of Armenia and their Artsakh colleagues.
The council, proposed by Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Maneh Tandilyan, will be tasked with drafting a comprehensive government policy regarding domestic violence that will propose new legislation and conduct greater public information on the matter.
Some 200 residents of Yeghvard, a town of some 10,000 in Armenia’s Kotayk Province, closed the main roadway to Yerevan today to protest the planned construction of an oil reprocessing plant.
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