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400 EMIGRATING "STRAPPERS"
JAMES HAKOBYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25161.html
Published: 11:27:57 - 17/02/2012
The minister of energy of Armenia Armen Movsisyan stated in a press
conference that the government is working out a rehabilitation program
for Nairit Chemical Plant of Yerevan which will be submitted for an
independent assessment, after which the government will resolve this
issue. According to the minister, Nairit is the property of the CIS
Interstate Bank because the ex-manager of Rhinoville Property Limited
Company which is registered in an offshore zone, borrowed about USD
70 million from the CIS Bank and did not repay the loan.
Obviously, if the minister of energy of a country usually plays games
on his iPad during the meetings of parliament, one of the major plants
of that country will be ignored instead of becoming a source of stable
income for the country.
Will anyone explain why the ex-owner of Nairit wasted the loan and the
plant became the bank's property? Or, will there be a structure to
study the story of the loan trying to understand how the 70 million
dollar loan was spent and why the plant failed to pay it off, if
there is corruption or not?
By the way, if the majority of the parliament or the Speaker does not
demand that the playing minister apologize to the MPs or at least
to one of them for his disrespectful behavior, especially when the
minister says that he was playing because not all the parliamentary
speeches are interesting, we should never expect from the parliament
to care for the fate of the industrial giant.
While in normal parliaments of normal countries the ad hoc committees
would have already studied this issue to reveal why the giant became
an "orphan". But it is enough to see who the heads of the committees
dealing with the economic sphere in the Armenian parliament are -
Gagik Minasyan and Vardan Ayvazyan - and there will be no need to
come back to this issue any more.
Soon about 400 employees of Nairit will be made redundant, according
to the minister of energy. He said it will be done by the new manager
of the plant, but he added, that 400 people are a small number against
the total 3000.
When a small workshop is opened in Armenia with 10 or 20 employees, the
whole Armenian government headed by the president attends the opening
ceremony. The TV channels cover the event as if the unemployment
issue has this been solved in Armenia.
Now the reduction of 400 jobs is said to be a small number. They
don't care if the number of hungry and angry families will be 400
more or less, or emigrating "strappers" (as Karen Karapetyan said)
will be 400 more or less or emigrating "stuff" will be 400 more or less
(as Vardan Ayvazyan said).
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
JAMES HAKOBYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25161.html
Published: 11:27:57 - 17/02/2012
The minister of energy of Armenia Armen Movsisyan stated in a press
conference that the government is working out a rehabilitation program
for Nairit Chemical Plant of Yerevan which will be submitted for an
independent assessment, after which the government will resolve this
issue. According to the minister, Nairit is the property of the CIS
Interstate Bank because the ex-manager of Rhinoville Property Limited
Company which is registered in an offshore zone, borrowed about USD
70 million from the CIS Bank and did not repay the loan.
Obviously, if the minister of energy of a country usually plays games
on his iPad during the meetings of parliament, one of the major plants
of that country will be ignored instead of becoming a source of stable
income for the country.
Will anyone explain why the ex-owner of Nairit wasted the loan and the
plant became the bank's property? Or, will there be a structure to
study the story of the loan trying to understand how the 70 million
dollar loan was spent and why the plant failed to pay it off, if
there is corruption or not?
By the way, if the majority of the parliament or the Speaker does not
demand that the playing minister apologize to the MPs or at least
to one of them for his disrespectful behavior, especially when the
minister says that he was playing because not all the parliamentary
speeches are interesting, we should never expect from the parliament
to care for the fate of the industrial giant.
While in normal parliaments of normal countries the ad hoc committees
would have already studied this issue to reveal why the giant became
an "orphan". But it is enough to see who the heads of the committees
dealing with the economic sphere in the Armenian parliament are -
Gagik Minasyan and Vardan Ayvazyan - and there will be no need to
come back to this issue any more.
Soon about 400 employees of Nairit will be made redundant, according
to the minister of energy. He said it will be done by the new manager
of the plant, but he added, that 400 people are a small number against
the total 3000.
When a small workshop is opened in Armenia with 10 or 20 employees, the
whole Armenian government headed by the president attends the opening
ceremony. The TV channels cover the event as if the unemployment
issue has this been solved in Armenia.
Now the reduction of 400 jobs is said to be a small number. They
don't care if the number of hungry and angry families will be 400
more or less, or emigrating "strappers" (as Karen Karapetyan said)
will be 400 more or less or emigrating "stuff" will be 400 more or less
(as Vardan Ayvazyan said).
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress