Prices for medicament in the period of 2014-2015 have essentially fallen, however, in procurement of the Ministry cases are observed when they are purchased by considerably higher price that the import price. For instance, 4677 tablets of Desmopressin Acetate 0.1mg/5ml have been purchased by the Ministry in 2014, each tablet costing AMD 5789, with the total amount of AMD 27 million 75.2, in case, when it has been imported to Armenia by AMD 2720, or twice cheaper than the price purchased by the Ministry.
Moreover, in Vache Gabrielyan’s assessment, the situation might have been worse, if Armenia refused to engage with EEU.
On the whole, in his words, agreement of the parties will be a big positive signal, as Nagorno-Karabakh conflict remains one of the most militarized and hazardous ones of the post-Soviet space, conflicting parties of which continue investing means for defence strengthening and weaponry purchasing.
“Official Stepanakert made a few proposals, that it’s necessary to refrain from violation of ceasefire regime on holidays and the co-chairs accepted it rather enthusiastically and called on maintaining ceasefire regime during the days of Nowruz and Easter, which shows that our proposal was adopted by the co-chairs. According to some data, Azerbaijan also adopted it, but it lasted for only 1-2 hours, and Aliyev violated ceasefire regime during the ceasefire, by that desecrating their own holiday and commandments of their religious God. Accordingly, what do we expect from such a state? Only sanctions should be defined, if the whole world fights against terrorists, if they are looked for in the whole world, the same should be implemented towards them.”
“Maybe I have never published those names, but, now I will. 4 months later, two members of the Constitutional Court, former judges, told me, that until that moment they hadn’t informed me, but they had been assigned for the review, and they had reported the president in written form that the military prosecutor was right, and the Chamber—not. Moreover, the second president assigned the then prosecutor general to quickly and operatively conclude additional investigation and send it to the court with the same charges.”
According to M.Apresyan, it’s anticipated to establish an interdepartmental working group and discuss the issues, develop proposals and submit them to the government. According to him, they met representatives of tour agencies and hotels.
“Firstly, there should be political will. There is an option—regime change, and new authorities which declare fight against corruption as their chief purpose, not always keep their promises after coming to power. The other option: current authorities realize that this shouldn’t last long, and it would be preferable to have pressure from the bottom, and realizing seriousness and complexity of the situation, and that there is threat to state’s existence, they try to change something.”
“I think, this also speaks of the fact that both the USA and Russia don’t perceive the situation, existent in NKR conflict zone, as a situation leading to dangerous wide-scale activities , on the other hand, the fact that the USA and Russia may come to an accord in solving serious issues, will be positively reflected on Minsk group work, and there is no need to say something new. Russia, the USA and France will work in a manner they have worked for decades, it’s another thing, that one of the parties doesn’t want to take a step back, and without it we won’t record any serious change in Artsakh issue. “
Upon rough calculations, goods costing about USD 2 million are daily being imported to Armenia. And this means, suspension lasting for days, and, moreover, for weeks, may seriously impact on exchange rate demand and appreciate Armenian dram.
OSCE co-chairs have varying approach regarding Karabakh issue, each of them is lead by its own interest, and, accordingly, as these interests aren’t in line, no result will be recorded. Currently the US has its own interest that the situation temporarily remained unchanged, maybe till the end of election campaign and etc., after which they’ll decide what to do. And Russia has its interests, maybe it doesn’t intend to fix on existent situation with Azerbaijan, especially when Azerbaijan purchases large volumes of weaponry, and there are business interests there, i.e. everyone has its interests, it’s quite a normal phenomenon.
