“Russian-Armenian Contemporary Humanitarian Institute” educational foundation owes the state around AMD 600 thousand. The Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) plans to urge the foundation to return the debt to the state budget at the session to be held on December 28.
“The EU may violate its responsibilities on signing the agreement, or may reduce financial assistance in some fields. The methods are different. I consider the EU in any case will sign the negotiated agreement with Armenia,” he said.
“Iran is a very crucial partner and neighbor in many dimensions—trade, transport, energy, geopolitics. I read the statement by Rouhani in Yerevan as a standard diplomatic formulation, in other context— Netanyahu’s visit to Baku.”
“I consider, nothing has changed here, the sides should attempt to maintain former volumes of cooperation, although both of them are deepening military cooperation with different centers, in this case Armenia with Russia, and Georgia with NATO.”
“Georgia is one of the most interested sides in this issue , as regional instability means instability to Georgia. It made a proposal of becoming a platform for negotiations, of course, its implementation wasn’t realistic on account of OSCE MG functions, however, Georgia would implement such unbiased functions in case of desire by the two sides,” Irakli Menagarishvili said.
Reflecting to conditions, which Iran may establish for the Armenian businessmen, Shafei stated that Iran’s economy is getting used to the new situation. According to him, Iranian Government got used to the regime of self-sufficiency under the sanctions, attempting to foster capabilities of local producers. He considers for this very reason Iran has become self-sufficient in almost all the fields.
The electricity prices in Armenia have been revised. The electricity tariff for consumers decreased by 1.22 drams. The session of the Public Services Regulatory Commission defined the following tariffs for consumers sold by “Electric Networks of Armenia.”
Visit of Iranian president to Armenia, bilateral statements made during those several hours, caused a big stir among political and expert circles, because as a result of the visit, basically, the circle of expectations related to Armenia-Iran relations was clearly shaped. And time will show what reflection those quite different expectations will have, in which volume and how they’ll be implemented.
“Azerbaijanis seem to make all possible proposals, however, considerable part of those proposals have been made, under the conditions of race with Armenia or contrary to Armenia, and their considerable part contains incomprehensible issues.”
“Today I asked the President of Iran to encourage major Iranian businessmen to come here and establish their businesses and for my turn I also promised to do the same in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” President Sargsyan said.
