SERGE SARGSIAN: "ANY REFORM SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY ECONOMIC GROWTH AND INCREASE IN LIVING STANDARD OF PEOPLE
Noyan Tapan
April 24, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 24, NOYAN TAPAN. Parliamentary and presidential
elections have been held in Armenia for the past one year and
pre-electoral programs have been introduced to society. "Today,
it is already time for those programs to become reality. The main,
key idea of them is that potential has been accumulated for the past
seven years, which enables us to pass to the reforms of the second
generation," Serge Sargsian, the President of the Republic of Armenia,
said during the April 23 working consultation with the leading staff
of the RA Government’s Tax State Service.
According to the information provided to Noyan Tapan by the RA
President’s Press Office, the consultation was also attended by
Tigran Sargsian, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, Armen
Gevorgian, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Territorial
Administration, Hovik Abrahamian, the Head of the staff of the RA
President, Tigran Davtian, the Minister of Finance, Nerses Yeritsian,
the Minister of Economics, and other officials.
Clarifying why that work should be started from the very tax and
customs bodies, Serge Sargsian said that it is obvious for everybody
that any reform should be accompanied by economic growth and increase
in the living standard of our people. "We have no right to say dear
people, tighten your belts, wait for about three, four, five years,
until we implement the reforms of the second generation, then you
will live in good conditions," the President declared.
He mentioned that the tax and customs bodies are the first to be in
charge of the economic growth, the increase in competitiveness and, of
course, in the implementation process of the budget obligations. The
RA President claimed from the leaders of the Tax Service to display
equal and fair approach towards all the economic entities, to lead
a decisive and severe struggle against phenomena of corruption and
sponsorship. Serge Sargsian said that the activities of the tax and
customs bodies and the solution of the given tasks will continue to
be in the centre of his direct attention.