The budget draft 2014 is still as mystical as the economic policy of the Armenian government. This is like the decision to join the Customs Union. Neither parliamentary discussions nor experts’ opinions provide substantial information about the topic.
A few days ago it was announced that an agreement was reached between the RA government and GeoTeam company (and Lidian International, 100% shareholder of the company) to place a stack washing and refining cauldron in Amulsar. In the past it was offered to place it in a 2-kilometer vicinity from Gndevaz village.
As a Prime Minister I have never been to Cyprus and couldn’t have registered a company there. This is a provable fact. And we all know that it is possible to open an offshore under anybody’s name, even dead people sometimes appear on record. I understand that there are numerous tools to vilify politicians and I don’t think this is a right goal,” stated the Prime Minister.
Yesterday a news agency of Moscow Ria Novosti organized a teleconference between Yerevan, Moscow, Astana, Kiev, during which the secretary-general of the collective security pact Nikolay Bordyuzha made a long speech.
Former Prime Minister Hrant Bagratyan has developed a bill to the parliament aimed at strengthening the national currency.
They have deserved to be on the party list because they are sycophant and flattering. These people have paid a very high price for that because they voluntarily refused their freedom. They cannot say what they are thinking.
“I think it is clear why we have decided to become a member of the Customs Union and get integrated in the Eurasian economic territory. It enables us to build our relations with our strategic partner on a firmer platform. It enables us to get rid the hindering factors of trade. In the recent years intensive processes have been taking place in the framework of the Customs Union and if we don’t get integrated in this Union, new borders will be created for us that will include numerous limitations. This is an impermissible luxury for us. That is the reason why we have made a political decision to be integrated in the Customs Union.”
“Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan’s decision to join the Customs Union instead of signing a Free and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the European Union is a step back on the way to integration with Europe, and it is also a step back in Armenia’s modernization and development,” says Amanda Paul, expert of the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels. The EPC is a research center that is involved in European integration issues.
Yesterday the members of the “Say no to gender perversion” initiative organized a protest in Yerevan. They marched to the government building and submitted a letter to the government. This initiative is against the newly elaborated bill on the equality of men and women, which caused so much noise.
On September 2nd, 1958, there was an explosion in the sky above Sasnashen village. Villagers went out to streets and saw an airplane falling and military aircrafts flying around it. They heard shootings as well. The airplane fell down in several hundred meters from the populated area. Villagers run to the area of the plane crash hoping to save someone.
