RECOVERY OF POPULATION’S SOVIET TIME SAVINGS IS MORAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEM
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 18. ARMINFO. The recovery of the population’s
Soviet times savings is a moral, social and economic problem, says
Artak Arakelyan, MP representing the State of Law party.
“We owe money to those who built the country that was successfully
destroyed later. Even though we have been taught how to cheat in the
past years the money should still be returned,” says Arakelyan.
He notes that nobody pressured him and some other MPs to collect
signatures for calling a special session on the issue. He says that his
party drafted such a bill as early as 2000 but it has never reached the
parliamentary floor. Now the parliament has to consider three bills at
a time. “We should find an optimal solution,” says Arakelyan. He calls
a bluff the talk that WB and other international financial institutions
may refuse Armenia further financing if the savings are returned.
Arakelyan is sure that this issue will cause no split inside the
ruling coalition but regrets that socially oriented ARFD objects to
returning people their own money. Let them come and vote against rater
than deliberately boycott the session, he says. As for the Republican
Party’s skepticism Arakelyan calls it political jealousy.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress