Ministries Report: Premier Sargsyan hears accounts from Cabinet members on 2009 results
Prime Minister urged the cabinet to keep in mind the lessons of the past year.
This week Cabinet ministers have been presenting their annual reports to Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan on 2009 activities and omissions.
“All ministers are required to concentrate on the following questions – what were the main omissions and problems in 2009 that impeded the course of reform and had a negative impact on economic growth indices? Secondly, what are the lessons of 2009?” said Premier Sargsyan.
The premier said that the priority issues to be singled out for 2010 will remain under immediate supervision of ministers, who will be requested to report on progress made on them at the end of the year.
Ministers in charge of finance, economy, education, ecology and Diaspora affairs have already submitted their reports to the head of the government.
According to the finance minister’s account, his ministry has tried to reduce impact of the global economic crisis on the country’s economy with its tax and budgetary policy, avoiding a number of shocks. The ministry said it managed to succeed in its task thanks to “a saving regime”, about which the government declared still at the beginning of 2009.
The Economy Ministry said that while battling the effects of the global recession on Armenia, they also managed to initiate a series of programs. Among them it singled out the establishment of a nuclear medicine center at the Institute of Physics, as well as drafting of a law on free economic zones that the Ministry deems will stimulate further economic development if passed by lawmakers.
In its report the Ministry of Education and Science considers as its main achievement the adoption of a new law on education. It also reported on the completion of the last phase of transition to a 12-year education plan in 2009. Also, according to the report, criteria for subjects were elaborated and first text-books were published.
Environment Minister Aram Harutyunyan said that their main objective in 2009 was improving inspection aimed at protecting the bio-resources of Lake Sevan. Among the plans for this year, according to the minister, is to organize a biodiversity inventory and projects on the provision of drinking water will be implemented in 14 communities.
“Among our achievements last year was the increase of protected territories. Those are national parks - Arpi and Lake Sevan, the state-run Jermuk and Hankavan water and Zangezur preserves. As a result of these activities we have increased the area of protected territories in Armenia to 12 percent [of the whole country], which is close to international standards,” said Minister Harutyunyan.
And the Diaspora Ministry has scored 96 out of 100 points that it had set itself to achieve.
Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan ascribes their being short of four points to the “inexperience of their recently established ministry”.
“The Diaspora Ministry proved it to be a full-fledged structure in the state government system in 2009… I think this is the greatest result,” said Hakobyan.
“All ministers are required to concentrate on the following questions – what were the main omissions and problems in 2009 that impeded the course of reform and had a negative impact on economic growth indices? Secondly, what are the lessons of 2009?” said Premier Sargsyan.
The premier said that the priority issues to be singled out for 2010 will remain under immediate supervision of ministers, who will be requested to report on progress made on them at the end of the year.
Ministers in charge of finance, economy, education, ecology and Diaspora affairs have already submitted their reports to the head of the government.
According to the finance minister’s account, his ministry has tried to reduce impact of the global economic crisis on the country’s economy with its tax and budgetary policy, avoiding a number of shocks. The ministry said it managed to succeed in its task thanks to “a saving regime”, about which the government declared still at the beginning of 2009.
The Economy Ministry said that while battling the effects of the global recession on Armenia, they also managed to initiate a series of programs. Among them it singled out the establishment of a nuclear medicine center at the Institute of Physics, as well as drafting of a law on free economic zones that the Ministry deems will stimulate further economic development if passed by lawmakers.
In its report the Ministry of Education and Science considers as its main achievement the adoption of a new law on education. It also reported on the completion of the last phase of transition to a 12-year education plan in 2009. Also, according to the report, criteria for subjects were elaborated and first text-books were published.
Environment Minister Aram Harutyunyan said that their main objective in 2009 was improving inspection aimed at protecting the bio-resources of Lake Sevan. Among the plans for this year, according to the minister, is to organize a biodiversity inventory and projects on the provision of drinking water will be implemented in 14 communities.
“Among our achievements last year was the increase of protected territories. Those are national parks - Arpi and Lake Sevan, the state-run Jermuk and Hankavan water and Zangezur preserves. As a result of these activities we have increased the area of protected territories in Armenia to 12 percent [of the whole country], which is close to international standards,” said Minister Harutyunyan.
And the Diaspora Ministry has scored 96 out of 100 points that it had set itself to achieve.
Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan ascribes their being short of four points to the “inexperience of their recently established ministry”.
“The Diaspora Ministry proved it to be a full-fledged structure in the state government system in 2009… I think this is the greatest result,” said Hakobyan.
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