Armenia: PM reports on budget overperformance in Q1April 2, 2019 - 14:05 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday, April 2 met the chairman of the State Revenue Committee, David Ananyan. In a Facebook post published immediately after the meeting, Pashinyan revealed that the budget collection plan for Q1 was overdone by AMD 11.4 billion. According to him, Armenia’s reserve fund totals AMD 9.4 billion, which means that budget overperformance in the first three months of 2019 exceeded the reserve fund by AMD 2 billion. In March 2019, 8․361 million more fiscal receipts were printed against the same period last year, and 20․71 million more receipts were issued in Q1, Pashinyan added. Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion. Partner news | Scholz hopes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty will be signed this year German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hopes that a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed this year. Ucom equips four bus stops in Ijevan with free Wi-Fi Ucom now provides free Wi-Fi coverage in smart bus stops in four communities of Ijevan. Armenians stage more campaigns against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan Protesters blocked more roads across Armenia on Friday, April 26 in continuing attempts to scuttle territorial concessions to Azerbaijan. Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia. |