A NA DEPUTY WROTE A LETTER TO PUTIN
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04:16 pm 21 March, 2006
Though the negotiations of the gas price increase still go on in
Moscow the Committee Regulating Public Services (CRPS) has already
decided that the gas price must go up starting from April 10.
The most interesting point in the given situation is that neither
the political figures nor the economists reject the possibility
of an agreement according to which after the negotiations the gas
price may reach not 110 dollars as it is expected but, let’s say,
95 dollars. In the current situation even the Armenian inhabitants
will have to pay for the gas with the increased price. This is a law
provision according to which the price accepted by the CRPS will be
in force for at least 6 months.
“Will You and Robert Nazaryan resign if Armenian gas price does not
go up to 110 US dollars,” the deputy of the NA Manuk Gasparyan asked
the Vice – Chairman of the CRPS Nikolai Gasparyan today during the
debate on the gas price increase in the club “Mirror.” By the way,
the question remained without any answer. The deputy claims that the
committee violated its liabilities and made a groundless decision when
there isn’t even a final agreement on the increase. Manuk Gasparyan
will apply to the Court on this matter on April 2 – 3. Before that
he wrote a letter to the president of the RF Vladimir Putin. In
his letter he asks the president why the same country uses various
strategies and policies towards its military partners; it sells gas
to Byelorussia for 46 dollars and to Armenia for 110 dollars. Manuk
Gasparyan claims that he sent his letter to the right addressee as the
gas price issue is not to be solved by the “GasProm,” it has merely
a political outcome. Manuk Gasparyan expects a definite answer from
Vladimir Putin.
As for the effects of the gas price “groundless” (according to the
assessment of certain people) increase it is already known that the
Heating and Power Station (HPS) of Hrazdan decided to increase the
price of its product by 90%, other HPSs will have a less increase.