PURPOSE OF HRAZDAN TPP 5th UNIT’S DEAL IS TO MITIGATE SOCIAL SITUATION UNTIL UPCOMING ELECTIONS, AAM BOARD STATES

Noyan Tapan
Apr 10 2006

YEREVAN, APRIL 10, NOYAN TAPAN. Under the name of measures aimed at
mitigating the gas price increase consequences, the ruling regime is
taking a next in turn step that seems to please the people, while
actually endangers the RA national security and has the purpose
of maintaining and reproducing its own power.” This is said in a
statement issued by the board of the Armenian All-National Movement
(AAM) in connection with alienation of the 5th power unit of the
Hrazdan Thermal Power Plant (TPP) to a Russian state company. It
is noted in the statement that conceding the whole energy sector of
the country to another state constitutes a loss of one of the most
importrant foundations of the country’s political independence and
pursues a “purely transient consumer” goal, as a result of which
the real loss incurred by the whole people will exceed multifold the
seeming economic benefit. The AAM board pointed out that no social
problem is solved by this deal, since the compensated sum will mainly
go to the well-off sections of the society – the owners of the gas
consuming production, the oligarchs making the entourage of the ruling
regime.”This shameful deal has one goal – to allay a possible social
indignation until the upcoming elections,” the statement reads. It
is notheworthy that the board of the Human Rights 96 Party also
expressed its concern over the 5th unit’s deal. According to it,
“since there is no information about the normative legal act, under
which this decision was made, it remains to hope that these are not
provisions of the RA Law on State Property Privatization as they were
completely violated by the coaltion ministers.”