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    MEDVEDEV CONGRATULATES ABRAMYAN ON APPOINTMENT AS ARMENIAN PM

    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    April 17, 2014 Thursday 05:53 PM GMT+4

    YEREVAN April 17

    - 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".

    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.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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