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Whose Eyes Do We Try To Throw Dust In?
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Thursday, 21 March 2013 12:36
We are in the same arena with Armenia. We hear this expression quite
often from high-ranking officials in Karabakh, especially when there
is a need to find "justification" to this or that step.
During the Prime Minister's press conference at the end of the past
year when the issue of the increase in wages and pensions was raised
we again heard the same justification. The Prime Minister announced
that there was no provision for any rises in Armenia and as we are
in the same political arena, we cannot have any, either.
Yet the officials forget this expression when it comes to the
publication of their income statements. It turns out that these
statements cannot be published in Karabakh until a published
application by the press is presented. Whereas in Armenia, which
seems to be on the same arena with us, people are aware not only
of the government officials' but also their wives' or husbands'
incomes and property. In this regard we are not in the same field with
Armenia, yet a similar decision for Karabakh is at least astonishing
as here nearly everybody knows how much property each of them has,
how many houses they build, how many shops and plots of land they
have privatized, what businesses, how many apartments in this or
that country they have. On this background all the efforts to keep
everything in secret seem to be ridiculous.
The question is: why do they try to keep their incomes in secret?
Maybe all these businesses, construction units and apartments are not
registered by their or their spouses' names, or is there any other
reason for this?
Incidentally, in answer to our question in the press conference at
the end of the past year prime minister Ara Haroutyunyan announced
that in January we would have his income declaration published but
we are still waiting for it. He also mentioned that he could give no
promise on behalf of other officials.
Ministers also try to maintain confidentiality trying not to betray
their colleagues. During the latest press conference the Minister of
Agriculture gave no distinct answer to our question in what business
sphere the government official most succeeds in. He noted that they
have no similar statistics. He also said that agriculture is not
observed as a business element and they welcome each investment. And
to the question whether having thousands of hectares of wheat fields
or farms in possession is not a business the minister also gave a
somewhat vague answer whereas he is well aware of all the personal
possessions of each official.
Why do they need this secrecy and why do the government officials
calling to the necessity of open to public activity avoid openness?
Whose eyes do we try to throw dust in?
Anahit Danielyan
From: Baghdasarian
http://karabakh-open.info/en/subjecten/3776-en906
Thursday, 21 March 2013 12:36
We are in the same arena with Armenia. We hear this expression quite
often from high-ranking officials in Karabakh, especially when there
is a need to find "justification" to this or that step.
During the Prime Minister's press conference at the end of the past
year when the issue of the increase in wages and pensions was raised
we again heard the same justification. The Prime Minister announced
that there was no provision for any rises in Armenia and as we are
in the same political arena, we cannot have any, either.
Yet the officials forget this expression when it comes to the
publication of their income statements. It turns out that these
statements cannot be published in Karabakh until a published
application by the press is presented. Whereas in Armenia, which
seems to be on the same arena with us, people are aware not only
of the government officials' but also their wives' or husbands'
incomes and property. In this regard we are not in the same field with
Armenia, yet a similar decision for Karabakh is at least astonishing
as here nearly everybody knows how much property each of them has,
how many houses they build, how many shops and plots of land they
have privatized, what businesses, how many apartments in this or
that country they have. On this background all the efforts to keep
everything in secret seem to be ridiculous.
The question is: why do they try to keep their incomes in secret?
Maybe all these businesses, construction units and apartments are not
registered by their or their spouses' names, or is there any other
reason for this?
Incidentally, in answer to our question in the press conference at
the end of the past year prime minister Ara Haroutyunyan announced
that in January we would have his income declaration published but
we are still waiting for it. He also mentioned that he could give no
promise on behalf of other officials.
Ministers also try to maintain confidentiality trying not to betray
their colleagues. During the latest press conference the Minister of
Agriculture gave no distinct answer to our question in what business
sphere the government official most succeeds in. He noted that they
have no similar statistics. He also said that agriculture is not
observed as a business element and they welcome each investment. And
to the question whether having thousands of hectares of wheat fields
or farms in possession is not a business the minister also gave a
somewhat vague answer whereas he is well aware of all the personal
possessions of each official.
Why do they need this secrecy and why do the government officials
calling to the necessity of open to public activity avoid openness?
Whose eyes do we try to throw dust in?
Anahit Danielyan
From: Baghdasarian