ArmInfo. The Tourism Committee of Armenia has initiated a project to establish the Institute of State Guarantees tol protect the interests of tourists, including both RA citizens and foreigners. This was stated by Lusine Gevorgyan, the Chairperson of the Tourism Committee of Armenia, during a press conference on January 29. She noted that the project is currently being discussed with international donors.

ArmInfo. Armenia's accession to the European Union will result in the republic's withdrawal from the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the closure of the EAEU market for this country, as stated by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk to journalists on January 29, TASS reports.  "The solution here is obvious: opening markets with the European Union will mean closing markets with the Eurasian Economic Union. Otherwise, our  producers in the Eurasian Economic Union will suffer," the Deputy  Prime Minister of the Russian Federation noted. He specified that for  Armenia, "zeroing import customs rates with the EU will automatically  mean a return to customs and customs tariffs with the EAEU."

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ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will not participate in the meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council scheduled for January 30-31 in Kazakhstan.  Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan will lead the Armenian delegation. This information was reported to an Arminfo correspondent by the government press service.

ArmInfo. More than half of respondents in Armenia do not know how to fill out the sensational income declaration, which came into force this year. This is  evidenced by the results of a poll by the consulting company MPG/  "Proud Chipolino".

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ArmInfo. The Ministry of Economy of Armenia and the Hungarian airline Wizz Air considered the possibility of launching new routes, increasing the frequency of flights and expanding cooperation with the Tourism Committee of Armenia.

ArmInfo. Member of the ruling faction of Armenia, deputy head of the parliamentary committee on economic issues Babken Tunyan calls the information spread by opponents of the government that banking secrecy has been abolished in the republic and that state bodies and their employees can obtain any information about citizens' bank accounts disinformation.

ArmInfo. Chairperson of the Tourism Committee of Armenia Lusine Gevorgyan, together with the Ambassador of Armenia to Spain Sos Avetisyan, met with the Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Zurab Pololikashvili.

ArmInfo. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invested €396 million in Armenia’s economy across 19 projects in 2024, highest level of investments historically.

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ArmInfo. Fitch Ratings has affirmed Armenia's Long-Term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at <BB-> with a <Stable> outlook, as noted in the Fitch Ratings statement. It also includes an updated forecast for Armenia's GDP growth, projecting a slowdown to 4.8% in 2025 (down from an estimated  6% in 2024 and an actual  8.3% in 2023).

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ArmInfo. Vardan Jhanyan, the President of the Union of Miners and Metallurgists and First Deputy Director General of the Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Combine (ZCMC), is confident that two or three mining projects equivalent in capacity to ZCMC can radically change the economic situation in Armenia.

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ArmInfo.The head of the Audit Chamber of Armenia Nairi Sargsyan urges the authorities to  either cancel or postpone the implementation of the law on income declarations for citizens, considering that the state is facing a number of other priority tasks.

ArmInfo. The  Competition Protection Commission (CPC) is suggesting offering a subsidy  equivalent to the excise tax to genuine fruit vodka, Gegham Gevorgyan, the chairman of the department, said during the final press conference of 2024 on January 27.

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