YEREVAN, JANUARY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The 2009 program of measures of the Armenian Development Agency (ADA) CJSC was approved at the January 16 sitting of ADA's Council. The sitting was conducted by the the council chairman, RA prime minister Tigran Sargsyan. ADA's CEO Robert Harutyunian said that the document includes some interesting investment proposals which should be developed into programs. The measures indicated in the program will be carried out with the aim of encouraging investments and exports, improving the business and investment environment, and assisting with development of the IT sector. The program envisages promoting exports through such measures as the development of export-oriented enterprises and the preparation and impementation of programs on marketing, as well as new export programs; the study of needs of local market and enterprises and foreign markets for assessing the export potential of enterprises. Accoridng to R. Harutyunian, with the aim of improving Armenia's business and investment environment and the IT sector, continuous work will be done with the business and IT communities, including with working groups, in order to identify the existing problems, assess the opportunities of their solution, develop the respective proposals, discuss them and to approve the necessary measures in cooperation with the Business Support Council and the IT Development Support Council. NT was informed by the press service of the RA government that the 2009 estimate of expenditure of ADA CJSC was also discussed and approved during the sitting.

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