PARUYR HAYRIKIAN: DELIGHT OF “WINNING” LOW GAS TARIFF BY PROVIDING RUSSIA WITH GAS IMPORTED FROM IRAN IS DECEIT
Noyan Tapan
Apr 06 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The delight of “winning” a low
tariff for gas by providing Russia with gas imported from Iran
is just a deceit. Paruyr Hayrikian, Chairman of the National
Self-Determination Union, expressed such an opinion at the April
6 press conference. According to him, “by an unintelligible logic
we are deprived of our main advantage, the alternative possibility
of gass supply”. Hayrikian declared that the authorities want to
deprive the Armenian people of the possibility to have alternative
and competitive prices for gas in the coming decades for this low
price for gas, which will be the hardest blow delivered to Armenia’s
energy security and independence.
According to him, “the independence achieved 15 years ago through a
referendum is taken away from our children with a prospect of dozens
of years, today because of economizing money we make our children
hostages of the Russian imperialism”. From point of view of the
national insterests, according to P.Hayrikian “it is more beneficial
to accept the price thrusted upon by Russia than to let them have our
share of the Iranian gas on the pretext of reduction of the price
for gas”. The National Self-Determination Union Chairman said that
Armenian-Turkish relations continue to be regulated by Russian-Turkish
agreements, i.e. they are submitted to Russia, and an attempt to
submit the Armenian-Iranian relations to Russia is also being made
today. According to Hayrikian, the National Self-Determination Union
considers it possible to organize a rally in front of the building
of RA government on their own or in association with other forces.