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09-09-2016, 04:50 AM
YEREVAN: Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan tendered his resignation on Thursday saying the country needed fresh policies, after his government struggled with an eco**mic slowdown and protests in the capital earlier this year.
His an**uncement paved the way for the cabinet to resign and the president to appoint a new prime minister following consultations with parliament.
"We need a new approach, new start. That’s why I’ve decided to resign and let the president form a new government," Abrahamyan said.
Artak Zakaryan, a deputy from the ruling Republican Party, told reporters Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan has accepted Abrahamyan’s resignation.
The party said 53-year-old tech**crat Karen Karapetyan, the former head of national gas distributing company ArmRosGazprom and later Yerevan mayor, has been **minated as his replacement.
After leaving the post of mayor, he moved to Moscow, to be appointed as the first vice-president of Gazprombank.
He is currently deputy CEO of Russian gas producer Gazprom’s GAZP.
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Experts say the new government is likely to be temporary and the final configuration will emerge only after 2017 parliamentary election and the end of Sarksyan’s second term in 2018, when the full transition from the semi-presidential form of government to a parliamentary republic will be completed.
A former parliamentary speaker and an eco**mist by training, Abrahamyan was appointed prime minister two years ago.
In 2015 Armenia’s eco**my started to deteriorate - eco**mic growth slowed to 3 percent in 2015 from 3.5 percent in 2014 and below the government’s growth forecast of 4.1 percent.
The government expects 2.2 percent eco**mic growth in 2016. Armenia, a country of 3.2 million people, depends heavily on aid and investment from former Soviet overlord Russia, whose eco**mic downturn has hit Armenian exports and much-needed remittances from Armenians working there.
The government has also faced political challenges, including a flare-up of violence in Azerbaijan’s breakaway Nagor**-Karabakh region in April between Armenian-backed separatists and Azeri forces.
Two months later a group of 30 armed men seized the police station and took hostages in the Armenian capital Yerevan.
Two police ******rs were killed during a two-week stand-off, before gunmen surrendered to the authorities.
The incident led to mass protests in the capital, when people took to the streets to secure the release of a jailed opposition politician and demand the resignation of the government and the president.
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His an**uncement paved the way for the cabinet to resign and the president to appoint a new prime minister following consultations with parliament.
"We need a new approach, new start. That’s why I’ve decided to resign and let the president form a new government," Abrahamyan said.
Artak Zakaryan, a deputy from the ruling Republican Party, told reporters Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan has accepted Abrahamyan’s resignation.
The party said 53-year-old tech**crat Karen Karapetyan, the former head of national gas distributing company ArmRosGazprom and later Yerevan mayor, has been **minated as his replacement.
After leaving the post of mayor, he moved to Moscow, to be appointed as the first vice-president of Gazprombank.
He is currently deputy CEO of Russian gas producer Gazprom’s GAZP.
MM Mezhregiongaz unit.
Experts say the new government is likely to be temporary and the final configuration will emerge only after 2017 parliamentary election and the end of Sarksyan’s second term in 2018, when the full transition from the semi-presidential form of government to a parliamentary republic will be completed.
A former parliamentary speaker and an eco**mist by training, Abrahamyan was appointed prime minister two years ago.
In 2015 Armenia’s eco**my started to deteriorate - eco**mic growth slowed to 3 percent in 2015 from 3.5 percent in 2014 and below the government’s growth forecast of 4.1 percent.
The government expects 2.2 percent eco**mic growth in 2016. Armenia, a country of 3.2 million people, depends heavily on aid and investment from former Soviet overlord Russia, whose eco**mic downturn has hit Armenian exports and much-needed remittances from Armenians working there.
The government has also faced political challenges, including a flare-up of violence in Azerbaijan’s breakaway Nagor**-Karabakh region in April between Armenian-backed separatists and Azeri forces.
Two months later a group of 30 armed men seized the police station and took hostages in the Armenian capital Yerevan.
Two police ******rs were killed during a two-week stand-off, before gunmen surrendered to the authorities.
The incident led to mass protests in the capital, when people took to the streets to secure the release of a jailed opposition politician and demand the resignation of the government and the president.
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