CONSCIOUS HARM-DOING

March 2, 2010

"This is a question, which we cannot avoid. The targeting of concrete
businesses and the creation of obstacles for concrete businesses may
create dangerous impact on the country," during yesterday’s press
conference said Aristomene Varudakis, head of the World Bank office
in Yerevan as a response to the question of our reporter as to what
extent could the arrest of the director of the ArmEconomBank Saribek
Sukiasyan affect the business environment of Armenia. "I think the
government is aware of this," added Varudakis. Let us remember that the
European Bank of Development and Reconstruction released a statement,
which particularly says that the arrest of Saribek Sukaisyan harms
the business reputation of Armenia. The WB Armenia representative
shares this opinion. This means that Varudakis has diplomatically
said that the government represses those businessmen of Armenia, who
have contrasting political views and in this case the Sukiasyans. The
interesting thing is that after all the WB makes optimistic statements
and proposes optimistic expectations from the Armenian government,
hoping that the latter will efficiently fight corruption and even
oligopolies.