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4 October 2002 - 14:31 AMT

ARMENIA HAS BEST ECONOMIC FIGURES AMONG CIS STATES PRESENTED AT MEETING OF WB AND IMF DIRECTORS COUNCIL

Armenia has the best economic figures among the CIS member-states presented at the meeting of the Council of the directors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. As RA finance and economy minister Vardan Khachatrian has noted, Armenian macroeconomic figures for 8 months, in particular, the fact that the GDP increase in 10.1 % and the export increase is 13%, impressed the international experts. Other figures, according to the minister, are also favorable. It should be noted, during consideration of economic figures in Armenia, Eduardo Aninat, the executive president, stated that Armenia has active economic growth, low inflation, increase of the real incomes of the economy, reduction of poverty level.