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Crowd protesting gas bill hike plan address letter to president
16:02 - 16.05.13
The crowd, which rallied outside the Government earlier on Thursday to
protest against proposed plan for increasing the natural gas tariffs,
headed to the Presidential Office in the afternoon to submit a letter
to Serzh Sargsyan.
Before reaching there, they marched in procession to the Public
Services Regulatory Commission which had been earlier asked to
consider a plan for raising the tariffs.
In their latter, the protesters call upon the Commission to leave the
fees unchanged, otherwise threatening to declare a civil disobedience
and urge the population not to pay for the consumed natural gas and
electricity.
It comes after Armenia's major natural gas supplier, Armrusgasprom
(owner: Gazprom, Russia) asked the Commission to consider a plan for
raising the gas tariffs.
The authors of the letter claim that a decision to accept the plan may
cause major social problems, spurring large protests. They say higher
fees for natural gas will inevitably cause price surge in other
sectors, thus raising the poverty rate.
`We believe that a hike in the natural gas prices will be the last
drop to push the society to a zone of aggressive turbulence. The
method to of boosting migration to relax social tension no longer
works. Those who wanted to go are already gone; those who have stayed
link their future to their fatherland, Armenia, and have nowhere. They
will struggle against the violation of their social rights,' reads the
letter.
Armenian News - Tert.am
16:02 - 16.05.13
The crowd, which rallied outside the Government earlier on Thursday to
protest against proposed plan for increasing the natural gas tariffs,
headed to the Presidential Office in the afternoon to submit a letter
to Serzh Sargsyan.
Before reaching there, they marched in procession to the Public
Services Regulatory Commission which had been earlier asked to
consider a plan for raising the tariffs.
In their latter, the protesters call upon the Commission to leave the
fees unchanged, otherwise threatening to declare a civil disobedience
and urge the population not to pay for the consumed natural gas and
electricity.
It comes after Armenia's major natural gas supplier, Armrusgasprom
(owner: Gazprom, Russia) asked the Commission to consider a plan for
raising the gas tariffs.
The authors of the letter claim that a decision to accept the plan may
cause major social problems, spurring large protests. They say higher
fees for natural gas will inevitably cause price surge in other
sectors, thus raising the poverty rate.
`We believe that a hike in the natural gas prices will be the last
drop to push the society to a zone of aggressive turbulence. The
method to of boosting migration to relax social tension no longer
works. Those who wanted to go are already gone; those who have stayed
link their future to their fatherland, Armenia, and have nowhere. They
will struggle against the violation of their social rights,' reads the
letter.
Armenian News - Tert.am