Yesterday for the first time all the accredited journalists were able to watch the government session online through live broadcast form the government session hall.
This was organized by the assignment of the RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, by whose initiative from now on the visitors of the government website will be able to be introduced to the agenda of the session and the documents to be discussed in advance. During the session among other issues Tigran Sargsyan informed the ministers of novelty, which related to the work with the mass media.
“The novelty, which is a component of the charter of the RA President, relates to the issue of organizing the work with the media. From now on the style of our work with the media is going to be changed. Specifically, the first principle, which the President of Armenia imposed, is the following: if we want to have accountable mass media we must first of all have responsible government. What does this mean? From now on we will have to react on the basic news published by the media, which cause great noise. The Prime Minister’s staff will analyze such articles and respond to those. Our purpose is to protect the honor and dignity of our colleagues, the statesmen and if belying news or untruthful information appears in papers we all have to respond to them. The President assigned to develop certain legislative acts to keep us protected from such belying news, which disorient our society. And by the decree of the President of Armenia I give the first assignment: On April 23, 2008 Aravot newspaper published untruthful information about the governor of Syunik Souren Khachatryan. The deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorgyan is assigned to establish a working group and find out the reasons of such information and report back to us. We will process this case. These are the basic novelties regarding our relationships and communication with the media. We will hence apply those,” said Sargsyan.
Let us mention that according to one of the decisions made by the government yesterday May 1,2,3 of 2008 were considered days off and May 4 Sunday is a working day instead.