POLITIZATION OF THE PROBLEM OF SHEEP PURCHASING BY IRANIANS IN ARMENIA IS IRRELEVANT, CHAIRMAN OF UNION OF YEZIDIS OF THE WORLD THINKS

ArmInfo
2009-10-26 14:07:00

ArmInfo. Politization of the problem of sheep purchasing by Iranians
in Armenia is irrelevant, chairman of Union of Yezidis of the world,
Aziz Tamoyan, told ArmInfo correspondent.

‘I really met Armenian Agriculture Minister Gerasim Alaverdyan and
told him about catastrophic reduction of sheep stock because of their
mass export to Iran. I don’t understand how it may be connected with
Azerbaijan. Why do they worry about our problems?’, – he said.

Tamoyan said that at present Yezidis living in Armenia have just 10%
of the sheep stock which they had before. He explained this by the
fact of the mass purchasing of sheep and their further export to Iran.

‘Today the cost of one lamb have grown from 20 up to 50 thsd drams,
but this price is also favorable to Iranians, as a lamb costs threefold
more in Iran’, – he said.

The head of the national minorities department under the Armenian
government, Vardan Asatryan, said that Armenian government has nothing
in common with sheep sale. Iranians buy sheep from Yezidis in private
way. Politization of the problem is irrelevant as nobody makes Yezidis
to sell sheep especially to abroad.

To note, according to our information sheep are exported from Armenia
to Iran by airplanes. One airplane may export several hundreds
of sheep.