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    AT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEE SITTINGS

    National Assembly of RA, Armenia
    Feb 27 2007

    On February 26 all the drafts debated at the Standing Committee on
    Financial-Credit, Budgetary and Economic Affairs were endorsed. Two
    drafts will be proposed for the inclusion on the agenda of the ninth
    session as well as two drafts and legislative packages will be proposed
    to put on the four-day sittings agenda.

    The executive body intends to clarify the cases of the exempt from
    the VAT the bank gold circulation by the amendment to the law on
    Value Added Tax.

    Making addenda to the law on Property Tax the MPs of the RPA faction
    envisage exempting from property tax the disabled who received cars
    on favorable terms by social security bodies.

    The legislative package, which envisions amendment to the law on Trade
    and Services, will be submitted to ratification by the parliament
    for the second time. Mr. Ara Petrosyan, Deputy Minister of Trade and
    Economic Development, presented that the package was revised and
    edited after the first reading based on Mrs. Hermine Naghdalyan's
    and Mrs. Hripsime Averisyan's proposals.

    According to Mr. Tigran Sargsyan, Chairman of the Central Bank of
    Armenia, the proposals related to the law on Banking Secret and
    legislative package of the amendments in the other laws, were not
    received after the adoption in the first reading.

    At the sitting of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations,
    presided over by Mr. Armen Roustamyan, Mr. David Lokyan, Minister
    of Agriculture, presented the Agreement on the Loan of the Program
    of Restoration of Industrial Infrastructures between RA and the OPEC
    Fund for the International Development, signed on January 17, 2007.

    The Minister noted that the total cost of the program is 12,9 million
    US dollars, with 2 million US dollars of the RA Government. The program
    aims to create favorable conditions for the stable growth of the
    incomes of the communities of the regions included in the program. The
    problem is to support to the activity of the private sector as well
    as to the development of the entrepreneurship opportunities in the
    included territories through the reconstruction and construction of
    the necessary infrastructures. The territory of the program includes
    the marzes of Shirak, Lori, Tavush, Gegharkunik, Vayots Dzor and
    Aragatsotn.

    The agreement will be submitted to ratification of the parliament
    with the endorsement of the committee.
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