{"id":108830,"date":"2017-07-17T12:20:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T12:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2017\/07\/17\/246524\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:30:08","slug":"reforms-in-energy-sector-to-improve-armenias-moodys-sovereign-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2017\/07\/17\/108830\/","title":{"rendered":"Reforms in energy sector to improve Armenia\u2019s Moody&#8217;s sovereign rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, July 14. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Reforms in Armenia&#8217;s energy sector will improve the country&#8217;s Moody&#8217;s sovereign rating, Ashot Manukyan, energy infrastructures and natural resources minister, said on Friday as he met with a representative of Moody&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Manukyan presented the energy, water reserves and natural resources programs being implemented in Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abArmenia has applied to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative to join it,\u00bb he said. \u00abI am convinced that this will have a positive impact on Armenia&#8217;s sovereign rating.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Manukyan also spoke about liberalization of electric energy and water resources markets.<\/p>\n<p>The minister discussed with the Moody&#8217;s representative room for assignment of ratings to Armenia&#8217;s energy and mining companies.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2016, Moody\u2019s Investors Service International Ratings Agency downgraded Armenia&#8217;s long-term issuer and senior unsecured debt ratings to B1 from Ba3, but upgraded outlook from Negative to Stable. &#8211;0&#8212;-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reforms in Armenia&#8217;s energy sector will improve the country&#8217;s Moody&#8217;s sovereign rating, Ashot Manukyan, energy infrastructures and natural resources minister, said on Friday as he met with a representative of Moody&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,14497,15648,14498,14499,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-108830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-energy-sector","11":"tag-moodys-2","12":"tag-reforms","13":"tag-sovereign-rating","14":"tag-308"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}