TOTAL ROBBERY AND “ESTRANGEMNT”
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[07:55 pm] 11 April, 2006
The bill on the “account establishment on the program implementation of
the 2001 – 2003 state property privatizations” was put on the agenda
of the NA session yesterday. Today the NA Speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan
and other important figures criticized the “estrangement” policy
of the Government “as a result of which the RA budget had a loss of
milliards AMD.” Arthur Baghdasaryan inquired why the same territory
is sold for 1000 AMD in one case and for 100 000 AMD in another. The
Chief of the State Property Department Karine Kirakosyan answered that
the price is determined by a number of factors; the activity index,
actives and liabilities of the enterprise are taken into account.
Before answering Arthur Baghdasaryan’s questions Karine Kirakosyan
claimed that neither educational nor primary educational institutions
were alienated or privatized. The NA Speaker informed her that 535
nursery schools and 250 libraries were already privatized.
Today the Opposition was also very active. The vice-deputy of
the “Justice” party Victor Dallakyan divulged all the cases of
privatization which were realized directly and the buyer was known
beforehand; for instance, the company “Orbita” was estimated 150
million AMD whereas it was privatized with 150 million AMD. Let’s
bring another example, “Light” LTD was estimated 106 million AMD
whereas it was privatized with 10 million 825 thousand AMD.
The member of the party “Orinats Yerkir” (“Country of Law”) Hovhannes
Margaryan brought other examples of privatization and 6 examples of
companies alienated with lower price. The member of the party “National
Unity” Aghasy Arshakyan announced that the country is subjected to
total robbery, “the economy was destroyed and sold for nothing.”
