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    PRIME MINISTER'S DESTINY
    James Hakobyan

    12:15 14/03/2013
    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/29270

    Immediately after the visit to Moscow Serzh Sargsyan leaves for
    Brussels to attend the EPP summit. It is interesting whether Prime
    Minister Tigran Sargsyan will leave for Moscow. In Moscow one of the
    key issues of the meeting with Putin will be appointment of prime
    minister. Before Serzh Sargsyan's departure for Moscow the Armenian
    press reported that Russia supports the ex-head of ARG Karen Karapetyan
    who is currently the vice president of Gazprom Bank. Russia links
    the gas price to this appointment.

    Interestingly, Tigran Sargsyan's visit to Moscow discussed by
    the prime minister and the Russian ambassador in January has been
    cancelled. Interestingly, the visit of the Russian ambassador to
    PM's office followed the visit of the U.S. ambassador and the country
    director of USAID. The U.S. diplomats presented to Tigran Sargsyan the
    cooperation plan prepared for Armenia. On the next day, according to
    the official press release, the Russian ambassador visited the PM's
    office and discussed Tigran Sargsyan's visit to Moscow.

    It is already mid-March, and Tigran Sargsyan has not gone to Moscow
    yet. Instead, the U.S. ambassador visited the prime minister's office
    again, while the press rumors that Russia supports Karen Karapetyan's
    nomination for prime minister who is currently visiting Yerevan and
    having meetings with the political parties.

    No statement has followed Serzh Sargsyan's visit to Moscow. There are
    no hints on what they discussed with Putin. Most probably, this issue
    will be on the agenda of Serzh Sargsyan's visit to Brussels. On the
    eve of Serzh Sargsyan's visit to Moscow the deputy foreign minister
    of the UK met with the prime minister and informed about the interest
    of British companies to make investments in Armenia.

    This statement is highly important for further development of Armenia.

    During the meeting with Serzh Sargsyan Vladimir Putin reminded that
    Russia is Armenia's number one economic partner and investor, and
    there is a huge Armenian community in Russia, hinting remittances.

    As long as this economic correlation has not changed, the policy of
    foreign political diversification will be a sham. Russia will keep
    its influence on Armenia. It means that Moscow will make a decision
    on the nomination of the prime minister.

    The West speaks about investments but there is no commitment yet. On
    the other hand, the Western investments are blocked by the Armenian
    governance, the example is Carrefour. Here's a vicious circle.

    Diversification of investments depends on political will, political
    will depends on capital, capital depends on Russia. The ruling "elite",
    the government and the opposition, do not want to take the risk.

    The possible ways out of this vicious circle are highly hypothetical
    until the majority of public is in the offside and chooses the extreme
    of all the ways out. Another attempt is made on Freedom Square to
    form a factor out of the society. If this attempt succeeds, there
    will be a meaning to discuss the foreign dimension of the nomination
    of prime minister, if not, it is not important in which capital city
    this issue will be solved.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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