RIA OREANDA
Economic Press Review
November 29, 2004 Monday
New Kalmykia Senator Promises Economic Prosperity for his Republic
Elista. Appeared in Russian in Moscow’s NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA. At its
eighth session on November 26, the People’s Parliament of the
Republic of Kalmykia elected Levon Chakhmachian as the senator to the
Council of the Federation of Russia’s Federal Assembly from Kalmykia.
Levon Chakhmachian is the leader of the political party Russian Party
of Self-government of the Working People, first vice president of the
Association for Russo-Armenian Business Partnership, and cochairman
of the Patriots of Russia political coalition. In his speech,
Kalmykia’s Parliament Speaker Viacheslav Bembetov emphasized that the
party he chairs is not only consistent in supporting the constructive
policy pursued by the republic’s leadership, but is also unraveling
an economic program to develop and support small and medium
businesses by creating public enterprises whose stock will belong to
the personnel. The decision to elect Levon Chakhmachian senator to
the Council of the Federation was approved by secret ballot: 19 ayes
versus 5 nays with one abstention. In his activity the new senator
will pay special attention to the federal targeted programs on
Kalmykia’s, funding of republican projects aimed at developing cattle
breeding, meet processing, gasification, and water supply to
villages, creating jobs, expanding oil and gas prospecting projects,
upgrading the key sectors of industry, and addressing social
problems. Copyright (c) 1997-2004 RIA “OREANDA”
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress