YEREVAN. - The activity of the Armenian government for the previous period should be assessed as satisfactory.

Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, Artak Zakaryan, told the aforementioned on Thursday before the session of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Council.

“In the conditions of new challenges, the new government which is to be formed, should consider all the possible challenges and the demands of our society, which, obviously, change together with the progress of life. We must also prepare the new government for these new solutions,” Zakaryan said.

In his words, the government of national accord should be a government which will include the demands of all the strata of the society and provide plans for them.

“I think we will have a model of such government in future,”he noted.

Zakaryan also noted that the sessions of the RPA Executive Body and Council will address the candidacy of ex-Mayor of Yerevan Karen Karapetyan for the office of the new prime minister. There are no other candidates but for him, Zakaryan noted. 

Responding to the question on whether the fact that Karapetyan doesn’t belong to the RPA isn’t an obstacle, he said: “He used to be included in the City Council list and cooperated with our party for many years. As you know, the RPA has always been able to pass a long way with its opponents and partners.”  

Zakaryan explained the need to have an acting prime minister with the situation emerged.

 “The change in the Government is based on the need to have new solutions and approaches by the society. The society needs new approaches and solutions. The old Government has an Action Plan, which should be updated, reviewed and be brought to conformity with the modern foreign and domestic policy, as well as public demands,” he said.