Freedom of Information Center of Armenia.

RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan partook today in the 8th annual Award of Freedom of Information, held since 2003 – after the adoption of ‘RA Law on Freedom of Information’ –every September 28 – World Day of Information Freedom. An official from the information and PR office of RA Governmental told Armenpress that Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan congratulated the attendees and underscored the importance of freedom of information.
 
He spoke on the current issues of the sphere. ‘First of all we emphasize the open and transparent operation of state administration bodies. We exert quite serious efforts in this direction for that all the decisions, adopted by state bodies, be available for the society and presented to them for initial discussion. This gives an opportunity to state bodies to take the public opinion into account,’ the Prime Minister said. He touched upon the establishment of cooperation between NGO’s and state bodies and mentioned that by this dialogue between the society and state bodies in getting information should be ensured.
 
The Prime Minister stressed that it was the first time all the decisions of the Government were presented to the society via the internet. During the award, organized by Freedom of Information Center of Armenia, the Governmental www.e-gov.am website was recognized as the best website for provision of information of 2010. Davit Sargsyan, chief of RA Prime Minister’s staff, expressed gratitude for the award and mentioned that the work was undertaken upon Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan’s assignment.
 
‘The first piece of information we placed on the Government’s website before the creation of www.e-gov.am, was the gap of financing of state non-commercial organizations from the state budget,’ Davit Sargsyan said.

ARMENPRESS