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MEDVEDEV CONGRATULATES ABRAMYAN ON APPOINTMENT AS ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER
Itar-Tass, Russia
April 17 2014
YEREVAN, April 17. /ITAR-TASS/. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
on Thursday, April 17, congratulated Ovik Abramyan on his appointment
as the new prime minister of Armenia.
"Russia and Armenia are bound by relations of allies and strategic
partners based on the traditions of friendship between our people,"
Medvedev said his message to Abramyan.
He is "convinced that further development of bilateral cooperation in
such fields as trade, economy, investment, science and technology,
and the implementation of new major joint projects as well as
full participation of Armenian partners in the process of Eurasian
integration fully serve the interests of our states".
Medvedev reiterated he is "ready for constructive work" with Abramyan
"on all pressing issues of interaction between the governments of
Russia and Armenia".
Armenian prime minister resigns Abramyan's predecessor Tigran Sargsyan
resigned on April 3. The resignation was announced at a meeting of
the ruling Republican Party leaders' meeting in Yerevan.
He tendered resignation to President Serzh Sargsyan a month earlier
but it was put away pending Armenia's accession to the Customs Union
of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia and the Republican Party's economic
forum on this topic.
In his letter of resignation, Sargsyan wrote that "the decision is
timely and well considered".
"This is a balanced decision that was not made on the spur of the
moment," Sharmazanov said.
He said no candidates for premiership or the composition of a new
government had been discussed at the party meeting.
On April 2, the Constitutional Court ruled that some of the provisions
in the government-initiated pension reform plan were running counter
to the Constitution. The judgment allowed some politicians to say
that Sargsyan's resignation was inevitable.
The president has not accepted the resignation yet. Once the prime
minister resigns, his whole government steps down with him. Under
the Constitution, a new prime minister has to be appointed within ten
days after the government's resignation. A new government has to be
appointed within 20 days after the appointment of the prime minister.
Sargsyan was reappointed as prime minister in May 2013.
Itar-Tass, Russia
April 17 2014
YEREVAN, April 17. /ITAR-TASS/. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
on Thursday, April 17, congratulated Ovik Abramyan on his appointment
as the new prime minister of Armenia.
"Russia and Armenia are bound by relations of allies and strategic
partners based on the traditions of friendship between our people,"
Medvedev said his message to Abramyan.
He is "convinced that further development of bilateral cooperation in
such fields as trade, economy, investment, science and technology,
and the implementation of new major joint projects as well as
full participation of Armenian partners in the process of Eurasian
integration fully serve the interests of our states".
Medvedev reiterated he is "ready for constructive work" with Abramyan
"on all pressing issues of interaction between the governments of
Russia and Armenia".
Armenian prime minister resigns Abramyan's predecessor Tigran Sargsyan
resigned on April 3. The resignation was announced at a meeting of
the ruling Republican Party leaders' meeting in Yerevan.
He tendered resignation to President Serzh Sargsyan a month earlier
but it was put away pending Armenia's accession to the Customs Union
of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia and the Republican Party's economic
forum on this topic.
In his letter of resignation, Sargsyan wrote that "the decision is
timely and well considered".
"This is a balanced decision that was not made on the spur of the
moment," Sharmazanov said.
He said no candidates for premiership or the composition of a new
government had been discussed at the party meeting.
On April 2, the Constitutional Court ruled that some of the provisions
in the government-initiated pension reform plan were running counter
to the Constitution. The judgment allowed some politicians to say
that Sargsyan's resignation was inevitable.
The president has not accepted the resignation yet. Once the prime
minister resigns, his whole government steps down with him. Under
the Constitution, a new prime minister has to be appointed within ten
days after the government's resignation. A new government has to be
appointed within 20 days after the appointment of the prime minister.
Sargsyan was reappointed as prime minister in May 2013.