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The semi-weekly 168 Zham writes that yesterday finally President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan responded to the proposal of the Armenian National Congress on starting dialogue. The paper says in a quite extended speech the President, not rejecting the proposal of the dialogue in general, rejected the proposal on speaking in the format of negotiations. The paper says he did it in an ambiguous way that may be assessed both as a rejection or consent.
The paper says repeating the proposal so many times voiced by the members of the Republican party on possibility of dialogue, Serzh Sargsyan added "if instead of negotiations, which are unacceptable, the Armenian National Congress is genuinely ready to continue the dialogue on the outline of the country's development, essential issues of the country's foreign and internal policies and desires to do so through the specially designated individuals, the representatives of the Coalition parties can sit down at the negotiation table with them". The semi-weekly writes this statement can give the ANC an opportunity to keep the door of dialogue "partially open". The paper says in any case the ANC has not described the statement of the president as a refusal and is going to discuss it.
The daily Capital writes that the Armenian government is planning to improve its positions in the international economic rating lists. The paper says the executive believes that high rating will allow intensifying the flows of investments to Armenia. If during the past 1-2 years the Doing Business and Fitch rating was considered important, the list adopted yesterday by the government is focused on Heritage Foundation, Economic Freedom, Network Readiness and Global Competitiveness, Transparency International and Corruption Perceptions. The paper says though the numerological temptation became stronger than pointing out the real activities.