Melkumyan: Government should create favorable conditions for investments in border villages
The four non-government parliamentary forces plan to submit to the government a draft envisaging privileges to the population of Armenia’s border villages, in particular exemption from land tax and property tax, reduction of license payments for small and medium businesses and rates of turnover tax, Prosperous Armenia faction member Mikael Melkumyan told reporters in Yerevan.
Melkumyan noted that industrial zones will be created in the provinces, including border ones, after the adoption of the law.
“Certainly it is not easy to make investments in border areas, but proper conditions should be created for it. Those people who now live in the border areas are not going to leave their homes, so the government should create favorable conditions for investments,” Melkumyan said.
Head of the Union of Native Producers of Armenia Vazgen Safaryan said for his part that the opposition parliamentary factions showed a constructive approach and stressed that the cooperation between the government and the parties has yielded positive results.