Pashinyan at a meeting with the Armenian community of France: Under  the new government, Armenia recorded progress on all kinds of ratings

ArmInfo.Today Armenia is developing as quickly as possible.  Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan expressed this opinion at a meeting with the leaders  of secular and spiritual organizations of the Armenian community of  France.  

So, according to the prime minister, in just a year, the  Armenian budget grew by 20%, in 2019, as many roads were repaired in  Armenia as the last time it was built and repaired with funds from  the Kirk Kerkorian's Lincy Foundation. The authorities have   increased the salaries of teachers, firefighters, foresters,starting  January 1, 2020 they are going to  raise pensions, " and the issue of  the destruction of forests has almost been resolved," he noted.

In addition, as Pashinyan said, in 1.5 years the monetary allowance  of military personnel has grown significantly in Armenia. "Over the  same period, arms were acquired, as many were not in the foreseeable  period," the prime minister said. Healthcare financing also increased  - by about 30 billion drams or 35- 36%.

The authorities did not forget about the sector of education and  sports - the allocated funds for providing sports and educational  schools of Armenia with sports equipment from the state budget  exceeded the figure for the last 10 years. At the end of 2019, the  international reserves of Armenia will be the highest - about more  than 1 billion drams. (On October 28, the head of the Central Bank of  the Republic of Armenia stated that in comparison with the 9 months  of last year, the international reserves of the Central Bank in 2019  became $ 250 million more than a year earlier, Ed.).

"Armenia has recorded progress on all kinds of ratings - Freedom of  Speech, Democracy, Economics. Over the year I published two  brochures" 100 Facts about the New Armenia. "Is there still a saying"  did we make a revolution for this? " Armenia still has a tradition of  distributing bread to the people by the ruling regime, which they  called charity, but in reality it was a policy that kept people in  poverty so that during the election they were ready to vote for  candidates giving out election bribes of 5-10 thousand drams. We say  that the only way to overcome poverty is through work. Citizens of  the Republic of Armenia should not always be as beggars, "Nikol  Pashinyan said. In this context, he said, today all conditions for  decent work are created in Armenia - barriers for importers are  removed and equal conditions are created for all business  representatives.

Nikol Pashinyan recalled that in one of his last reports of previous  years, as an indicator for reducing the shadow economy, the IMF  stated that if the ratio of taxes to GDP in the Republic of Armenia  increases by 0.3% annually, it will best success for the country.  "Over the year, our government reduced the shadow economy by 1.2%,  that is, four times more than the best IMF recommendations. There are  obvious facts that we have an unprecedented situation with a  reduction in shadow," Pashinyan said.

To recall, on October 16 at a press conference answering a question  from ArmInfo, chairman of the State Revenue Committee David Ananyan  stated that today the shadow share of the Armenian economy falls  mainly on small and medium enterprises, it is more difficult to hide  the "shadow" in large business. "The largest share of the shadow  economy is in the trade sector. In agriculture, there is also a  rather large" shadow sector ", but we do not consider this sector  taxable because it does not generate taxes," David Ananyan said. As  for the volume of the "shadow", the head of the SRC cited data  published by the Statistical Committee of Armenia, according to  which, now the volumes of the so-called "not considered economy" make  up about 22%.