Yerevan/Mediamax/. The Armenian Prime Minister visited ARMENAL plant making part of RUSAL today.

The Prime Minister was happy to note the stable growth of volumes of production, export, salary as well as taxes paid to the state budget, Mediamax was told in the company’s press service.

The Prime Minister held a meeting with participation of representatives of government and heads of the metallurgic enterprises of the republic in the plant.

The meeting focused on the problems and prospects of developing the metallurgic sector as well as a broad scope of issues related to the negotiations between Armenia and EU on Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area due to start soon as a result of which the domestic production will be exempted from customs duties while being exported to the EU market.

“We have all the grounds to hope that successful negotiations and signing of the agreement with the EU which is of utmost importance to Armenia will make ARMENAL production competitive on this major market”, stated Tigran Sargsyan.