YEREVAN, MAY 10, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan urges not to be afraid of the state debt, adding that it is borrowed for investing in the country’s economy and future.

During a special session in the Parliament, Pashinyan noted that the whole world has faced the pandemic and it would be difficult to find any country which has not increased its foreign and state debt.

He proposed to look at the figures with which Armenia has entered into 2020. Pashinyan reminded that Armenia has announced for the first time of not taking budget support loan. He said the state debt-GDP figure has greatly declined in 2019, reaching 59%.

“After the war we have issued 750 million Eurobonds from the international market, at an unprecedented low interest rate in the history of Armenia. Can you imagine that after the coronavirus, the war we are entering into an international market and acquire funds at historic low interest rates? This means that the international community trusts our government, our country. This means that we are international partners”, he said.

He noted that if there is a need for financial sources in the education sector, 1 billion, even 2 billion in debt should be borrowed for building kindergartens, preschools, and academic city in the country as, according to him, it is an investment in the future. “The price of that money is decreasing, you will have a capital tomorrow and will service that debt. I mean let’s not be afraid of the debt at all”, he said.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan