We must work consistently, we must be heard by the world. prime minister

The Davos Economic Forum is important because there are many platforms where the challenges facing humanity, states, and economies are discussed. And this is a very good platform where you can exchange ideas, offer your ideas, and also listen to others. I think it comes from our goal to remove all the obstacles that hinder the development of business. RA Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan stated this in an interview with the Armenian Public Television Company’s “Agenda” news program.

“I think we formulated a rather ambitious reform program and in 2017 we implemented some of them, be it customs, tax, state-business contact, border crossing, value added tax refund or other obstacles, as well as providing credit facilities, opening markets. I think the factor of general international activity played a role in it,” he said.

Referring to the agenda of his meetings, Karen Karapetyan expressed the opinion that he had many prospective meetings and will have them again, the agenda is not exhausted yet. 

“I attach importance to all the meetings, because the agenda was formed by our initiative and by the initiative of the other side. Right now we have met with UNDP, where we are talking about what standards and ideas the world should move forward with and, as you know, we are the first country where UNDP has created a relevant laboratory together with the state. In July we have to give a report to the UN where we will record what we have done. We suggested them to enter the territory of Armenia very boldly. we present the reforms we imagine, they will propose theirs. 
The meetings with the Prime Ministers are also forward-looking, where we talk about the prospects of possible bilateral developments, as well as business. There are meetings with representatives of many businesses that are unscheduled. The initiators were there themselves, they heard about the possible growth that we expect, about the activity, and we are also trying to arouse their interest in our country. There is one very clear thing that everyone acknowledges that, being a small country, we have quite interesting opportunities and preferential trade regimes, whether it is the EAEU, of which we are a member, the EU, with which we have a GSP regime, whether it is the United States, Switzerland, Canada, Japan, Norway. We have also talked about such a regime with Singapore, about the exemption of bilateral taxes, and we will continue these programs very intensively in the future, because it removes the obstacles that exist, and I think we will have results. But we must not get tired, we must work consistently, we must be heard by the world, we must present ourselves so that interest arises. It just won’t happen. Sitting quietly, interest in our country will not arise,” he added.