Chairman Of Ramkavar-Azatakan Party Of Armenia: Devaluation Of Armen

CHAIRMAN OF RAMKAVAR-AZATAKAN PARTY OF ARMENIA: DEVALUATION OF ARMENIAN DRAM RESULT OF ACTIVITY OF BANKRUPT-PREMIER

ArmInfo
2009-03-04 13:53:00

ArmInfo. Devaluation of Armenian dram is the result of the activity of
the bankrupt- premier Tigran Sargsyan, Chairman of Ramkavar-Azatakan
Party of Armenia Haroutiun Arakelyan said at a press conference
Wednesday. He said the drams should not have been so sharply devaluated
against foreign exchange.

‘Central Bank should have been waging floating rate policy long ago.

Devaluation of dram should have been gradual and not so sharp. As a
result, we faced 30-40 percent rise of prices’, Arakelyan said. He
said the government failed to bring big companies having surplus
profits to the tax field. ‘Government actions were aimed against the
small and medium-sized entrepreneurships. The government proved ot
brave enough to tax big companies’, Arakelyan said.