YEREVAN. - Thanks to consistent work, serious success has been achieved in reducing corruption risks in the procurement process. Armenia’s Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan told the aforementioned in his speech during the consultation held by the Armenian Defense Ministry today. The consultation was dedicated to material and technical supply of the country’s Defense Ministry and procurement organization.

During the consultation, Ohanyan said that due to consistent work carried out during the previous years by the Material and Technical Supply Department at Defense Ministry, including studying of market prices, serious success has been achieved in lowering corruption risks and procurement process, as well as material and technical supply of the Defense Ministry, Armenia’s Defense Ministry press-service reports.  

Stressing that that process is in the center of the Armenian President’s attention, Ohanyan instructed to attach special attention to the issues on drawing out the technical characteristics of the acquired means, researching the price policy and enhancing control over the quality of agreement implementation.

Summing up the results of the consultation, Seyran Ohanyan gave specific instructions on the transparency of the procurement process and activation of works on reducing corruption risks.