ArmInfo.Prime Minister of Armenia Karen Karapetyan on August 31 during the meeting of Cabinet of Ministers of the state once again called to increase effectiveness  of the process of distribution of court cases and to abbreviate terms of the review. 

ArmInfo. To provide transparency and targeting in the provision of medical services to the population, Prime Minister of Armenia Karen Karapetyan called for reconsidering  mechanisms for the distribution of state orders. He stated this at a meeting of the Armenian government on August 31.

ArmInfo.On August 28, Armenian Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan received US Ambassador to Armenia Richard Mills. The head of the Armenian Cabinet of Ministers stressed the importance of holding periodic meetings, which are a good opportunity for an exchange of views on the course and prospects for the development of cooperation.

ArmInfo.The traffic on the Yerevan-Sevan-Ijevan interstate highway segment will be temporarily limited.

ArmInfo.In Armenia, for the first time, a pilot project is launched to ensure the protection of national parks by a private company. The corresponding draft decision, providing for changes and additions to the Armenian law "On the state budget of  Armenia for 2017" and the decision of the Armenian Government of December 29, 2016, was approved at a meeting of the RA Government on August 24.

ArmInfo.Armenian Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan allows the replacement of two ministers - the heads of Ministry of Emergencies and the Ministry of Nature Protection, but only after a detailed analysis of how the departments fought the unprecedented fires that broke out in the country. Karen Karapetyan said on August 21 in Tsakhkadzor, commenting on media publications about the possible resignation of these ministers.

ArmInfo.Prime Minister of Armenia Karen Karapetyan, who came from Nagorno-Karabakh, promised on behalf of his family to smash pomegranate gardens on the territory of  200 hectares. This statement was made during Karapetyan's visit to the Talish and Matagis communities of the NKR. Artak Beglaryan, spokesman for the head of the Artsakh government, said on his Facebook page.

ArmInfo.The situation in the bilateral commodity turnover between Armenia and Russia is not bad, because there is also an increase in the supply of goods from Armenia  to Russia, and a general increase in trade between the two countries.  On August 14, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry  Medvedev stated at the margins of the Eurasian intergovernmental  council in Astana during a meeting with his Armenian counterpart  Karen Karapetyan.

ArmInfo.Armenian Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan with his Kazakh colleague Bakytzhan Sagintayev in Astana, discussed prospects for further development of trade and economic relations.

Director of Armenian Center for Political and International Relations Aghasi Yenokyan in an interview with ArmInfo discusses the pitfalls that impede the development of Armenian-Iranian economic interaction. He comments on the prerequisites and opportunities for changing the "first person" in Armenia under the influence of external factors. Forecasts the possible negative and positive impact of US anti-Russian sanctions on Armenia.

ArmInfo. As of August 1, 748 buildings were dismantled from the inventory of 4,729 illegal structures on the territory of Sevan National Park, of which 95 in 2017. Work on clearing the territory of illegal structures continues, the press service of the Ministry of Nature Protection of Armenia reports.

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.

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 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."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.