AMALYA KOSTANYAN: POLITICS AND ECONOMY FUSION ON THE PRINCIPLE OF SIAMESE TWINS
LRAGIR.AM
15:10:44 – 08/04/2009
On April 8, at the conference on the perspectives for the Millennium
Challenges Account Armenia project implementation at the Business
centre of the American University of Armenia initiated by the
Co-operation for open society, addressing the conference the president
of the Transparency International anti-crisis centre Amalya Kostanyan
noted that the axis problems present in Armenia are caused by the
system, and added that dwelling on the just government she has to
touch upon these fields as well. Amalya Kostanyan attached great
importance to the Millennium Corporation not only from social,
economic and financial points of view, but also considered it the
first international assistance which was based on concrete criterion
and mechanisms to assess the progress in different spheres. "This
program encouraged the civil society to take part and to control its
implementation", said Amalya Kostanyan. Dwelling on the criterion
of the just government Amalya Kostanyan presented the indexes of
political rights, civil freedom, supervision of the corruption,
effective government, the changed indexes of the superiority of the law
after 2004, which she assessed as worrying and called for a serious
intervention. According to Kostanyan, nowadays, the Armenian economy
and politics are united as Siamese twins and only their separation
may suppose a just government.