SERGE SARGSIAN ASSURES THAT GAS PRICE WILL INCREASE LESS THAN
ENVISAGED
YEREVAN, MARCH 23, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The management of
Gasprom is ready to sign the appropriate agreements until late March,
which will allow the Armenian population and manufacturers to pay much
lower prices for gas than was envisaged previously. Serge Sargsian,
Secretary of the National Security Council under the RA President,
Co-Chairman of the Armenian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission on
Economic Cooperation, stated this during a talk with reporters on
March 22. In order to substantiate it, he referred to the answer that
he received on March 17 in response to his letter to Gasprom’s head
Alexei Miller. Not announcing the expected gas tariff, S. Sargsian
assured that “it will not be a price to affect the budgets of the
population and manufacturers.” Asked if the RA Public Services
Regulatory Commission’s decision about an increase in the gas price
was not a hasty one, Serge Sargsian replied that the decision was made
within the law.