ORINATS YERKIR PARTY LEADER ALARMS ABOUT DANGERS ARMENIA FACES

Panorama.am
20:42 11/04/2007

Arthur Baghdasaryan, chairman of Orinats Yerkir Party (OYP) that has
joined the opposition for almost a year, enumerated the risks that
Armenia faces during a community meeting. Interestingly enough, the
dangers were the same when his party was part of the ruling coalition.

Baghdasaryan said one of the dangers is the "paralyzed industry." "It
is not oligarchs that must raise up the industry. If "Yeraz" car
factory worked, we would not import Pejo cars from Iran but would
export from Armenia and sell in Iran," OYP leader said rhetorically. He
recalled that Michael Baghdasarov received $7 million and Gagik
Tsarukyan – $9 million from the state budget last year. "These $16
could have been invested in several factories," Baghdasaryan said.

The leader enumerated several other problems in social field, education
and science. "Why should the pensions rise only by 1000 Armenian
drams when they drastically go up in our neighboring countries,"
he raises the question. Baghdasaryan said he has solutions to the
problems written in his pre-election program.