ArmInfo."At the end of 2020, the number of smokers in Armenia is expected to decrease by 3-5%," Armenian Minister of Health Levon Altunyan said in an interview with ArmInfo.  A government meeting on August 3 approved the Strategy on Smoking  Control for 2017-2020.

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ArmInfo.Armenia is going to liberalize the visa regime with countries that are promising in terms of increasing the tourist flow. According to the Prime Minister, in recent months, the number of tourists and air travel has grown dramatically in Armenia. At the same time, Karen Karapetyan noted, there is a need for additional complex activities in the sphere of tourism.

ArmInfo. Issues of intensification of economic cooperation were discussed by Minister of Regional Cooperation of Israel Tsachi Anegbi who is on an official visit in Yerevan and Karen Karapetyan, the Prime Minister of Republic of Armenia.

ArmInfo. New staff of anti-corruption council of Armenia is known, headed by Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan

ArmInfo.MES of Armenia awaits the results of the examination of the explosion that took place today at the gas-filling station at the entrance to the city of Artashat,  Ararat region. The cause of the explosion, said today at a press  conference the head of the National Center for Crisis Management of  the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia Hovhannes  Khangeldyan, is still unknown.

ArmInfo. Prime Minister of Armenia Karen Karapetyan held a meeting with the regional leadership during the working visit to Tavush region, during which he focused on the implementation of community development programs, problems on  garbage collection. Karapetyan, first of all, drew attention to the  community's own incomes and low level of fees for garbage collection:  

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ArmInfo.Armenian Minister of Healthcare Levon Altunyan in Prague with his colleague  Miroslav Ludwik discussed the prospects for expanding Armenian-Czech  cooperation in the field of healthcare, in particular, in the  development of e-health and medical tourism market.

ArmInfo. Ashot Markarian, Deputy Minister of Labor for Social Issues, resigns. He wrote about this on his Facebook page. "It was a great honor and a great responsibility for me to work as Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs of Armenia, for which I am grateful to Karen Karapetyan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Karakalpakstan.

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ArmInfo.Armenian Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan thinks that reload of the courts creates serious risks from the point of view of administration of justice, Karen  Karapetyan said during the Government session of Armenia on June 29. 

ArmInfo. Armenian President Serzh Sarhsyan today spoke about hispossible premiership in Armenian Government. 

ArmInfo."Transparency will become an important criterion for the government's activities," Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said at the opening of the next cabinet  meeting on June 29. "I congratulate you on the appointment, or rather  the reassignment of many of you," the head of state said, addressing  the Cabinet of Ministers and Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan. He  stressed that, thus, the government is given the opportunity to  finish and  to complete what has been started.

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ArmInfo.During the  trial in the case of Zhirayr Sefilyan and his associates, accused of illegal acquisition, storage and use of weapons and ammunition, the presiding  judge Tatevik Grigoryan applied sanctions against lawyer Tigran Yegorian.

ArmInfo. The court session scheduled for 11:00 on the case of Jirayr Sefilyan and his associates accused of illegal acquisition, storage and use of weapons and ammunition began with a half-hour delay caused by delays when the law enforcers examined the personal belongings of the defendants' lawyers.

ArmInfo. The Armenian government will continue to work in emergency regime. The head of the executive body said on June 23 at a meeting of the Government.

ArmInfo.The Armenian government plans to increase the volume of water release from Sevan to 270 million cubic meters. The issue will be discussed at an extraordinary meeting of the National Assembly on July 4 at 10.00.