{"id":37635,"date":"2012-06-06T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2012\/06\/06\/235671\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:57:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:57:42","slug":"premier-outside-money-transfers-are-very-important-for-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2012\/06\/06\/37635\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier: outside money transfers are very important for Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, June 6. \/ARKA\/<\/strong>. Money transfers are very important for Armenia, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said at a news conference in Brussels.<br \/>\nThe press office of the Armenian government quoted him as saying that 3 million people live in Armenia, and 6 million Armenians living abroad transfer money to Armenia.<br \/>\n\u201cThese are those who had left the country in the last two decades, and 95% of old immigrants have never been in Armenia, and this is a potential which can spur economic growth in Armenia.\u201d<br \/>\nAlthough they have never traveled to Armenia, they live in Armenian world, have own parties, Armenian schools and churches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have developed a new strategy of utilization of this potential,\u201d the premier said. \u201cThe Ministry of Diaspora was established in Armenian for the first time on President Serzh Sargsyan\u2019s initiative. Thanks to that we are implementing nationwide programs. We have dozens of nationwide organizations, unions of architects, doctors and lawyers, which implement programs aimed at developing Armenia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the National Competitiveness Council had been established in Armenia, which involved individual entrepreneurs from Armenian communities worldwide who doing successful business in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aim of the council is to implement programs which use Armenia\u2019s potential, will make our country competitive and attract investments,\u201d Sargsyan said. \u201cWe must improve business environment in Armenia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Central Bank of Armenia, more than $277.2 million was transferred to individuals in Armenia in the first quarter of this year for noncommercial purposes \u2013 10.3% year-on-year growth. -0&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money transfers are very important for Armenia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,12624,12564,568],"class_list":{"0":"post-37635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy-en","7":"category-news","8":"tag-armenia-2","9":"tag-premier","10":"tag-transfers","11":"tag-568"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635","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=37635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}