HOVHANNES MARGARIAN: THERE ARE NO ESSENTIAL DISAGREEMENTS BETWEEN COALITION MEMBER POLITICAL FORCES

Noyan Tapan

Feb 11, 2009

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 11, NOYAN TAPAN. On the threshold of the anniversary
of establishment of the ruling coalition we can state that there are
no essential disagreements in the coalition consisting of four parties.

Hovhannes Margarian, a member of the RA National Assembly Orinats
Yerkir (Country of Law) faction, stated at the February 11 press
conference. He said that though coalition members have different
approaches to different issues, there is always a common position to
strategic issues. According to H. Margarian, it was very important
that almost 90% of OYP leader Artur Baghdasarian’s preelection
provisions were included in government’s four-year program. According
to H. Margarian, considerable improvements happened thanks to their
implementation: a decision was made to allocate a one-off benefit
of 430 thousand drams to a family in case of the birth of the third
and next child, childbirth services became free, it was decided to
allocate 77bn drams to the earthquake zone restoration in the coming
three years, etc.

The OYP representative also said that the government will strive
for creating 2 thousand new jobs in Gyumri construction works to
overcome the world economic crisis consequences. According to him,
the construction of the Iran-Armenia railway and oil pipeline will
also give a possibility for new jobs.

H. Margarian also touched upon the recent shots in Gyumri saying
that there are such phenomena not only in that town, but also in the
whole country.

"The best way of fighting them is to disclose them in time and to
punish," he said. The OYP figure also confessed that the authors of
the threat of settling a score with A. Baghdasarian have not been
disclosed so far. It should be mentioned that A. Baghdasarian stated
at a rally that he had received a threat of murdering him.