ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER: IN RECENT YEARS IT BECAME POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE A SERIOUS TURNING POINT IN ENERGY SECTOR
Noyan Tapan
April 21, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 21, NOYAN TAPAN. It became possible to achieve a
serious turning point in the energy sector, there is a successful
controllable system, and the minister’s role was great in that, the RA
prime minister Tigran Sargsian said on April 21 when introducing the
re-appoined minister of energy Armen Movsesian to the staff of the
ministry. In his words, it is impossible not to note and appreciate
the direct constribution of the minister, whose re-appointment and
the expansion of the ministry – henceforth the ministry will also deal
with problems of natural resources – bear evidence of this fact. The
prime minister stated that the energy sector will be one of the driving
forces of the economy: serious steps have been taken and considerable
investments made in the sector which has much potential.
In response to the question about why the function of managing the
natural resources has been given to the ministry of energy, Tigran
Sargsian explained that so far no single ministry was responsible
for this sector, some problems were dealt with by the ministry
of environmental protection, others – by the ministry of trade and
economic development, while some problems were disregarded. According
to him, taking into account the fact that the forms and methods of the
energy sector’s organization are like those of managing the natural
resources, the chemical industry is closely related to this sector,
and, finally, the level of controllability is high at the ministry,
a decision was made to entrust the management of natural resources
to the ministry of energy.