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ARFD PARLIAMENTARIAN WELCOMES COALITION'S INITIATIVE TO SET UP AN AD HOC COMMITTEE ON GAS PROBLEMS
by David Stepanyan
http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=06B27840-995B-11E3-8ACF0EB7C0D21663
Wednesday, February 19, 14:43
ARFD Party Faction in the Armenian Parliament supports the ruling
coalition's initiative to set up an ad hoc committee to study gas
problems, ARFD representative Artsvik Minasyan told ArmInfo.
He said that the coalition-suggested project resembles the one ARFD
submitted yet in 2010 but contains some more issues connected with
the latest sale of the Government's share in ArmRusgasprom to Gazprom,
Russia.
At the same time, Minasyan was bewildered as earlier the parliament
majority rejected the similar project suggested by 4 factions of the
ARFD, ANC, Prosperous Armenia and Heritage parties.
"It has become something usual for the authorities to reject the
opposition's suggestions and then make similar ones. Nevertheless,
we care for settlement of the gas problems rather than our copyright,"
he said. Artak Zurabyan, a representative of the Republican Party of
Armenia, in turn, claims that the Republican's stance on an ad hoc
committee on the gas issue has not changed.
"We have always been ready to study the gas issue in any format.
However, we had to reject the initiative by the 4 factions to prevent
speculations on the topic by the coalition," he said. The latest gas
agreement with Russia under which 100% shares of ArmRusgasprom were
transferred to Russia has sparked public in Armenia.
by David Stepanyan
http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=06B27840-995B-11E3-8ACF0EB7C0D21663
Wednesday, February 19, 14:43
ARFD Party Faction in the Armenian Parliament supports the ruling
coalition's initiative to set up an ad hoc committee to study gas
problems, ARFD representative Artsvik Minasyan told ArmInfo.
He said that the coalition-suggested project resembles the one ARFD
submitted yet in 2010 but contains some more issues connected with
the latest sale of the Government's share in ArmRusgasprom to Gazprom,
Russia.
At the same time, Minasyan was bewildered as earlier the parliament
majority rejected the similar project suggested by 4 factions of the
ARFD, ANC, Prosperous Armenia and Heritage parties.
"It has become something usual for the authorities to reject the
opposition's suggestions and then make similar ones. Nevertheless,
we care for settlement of the gas problems rather than our copyright,"
he said. Artak Zurabyan, a representative of the Republican Party of
Armenia, in turn, claims that the Republican's stance on an ad hoc
committee on the gas issue has not changed.
"We have always been ready to study the gas issue in any format.
However, we had to reject the initiative by the 4 factions to prevent
speculations on the topic by the coalition," he said. The latest gas
agreement with Russia under which 100% shares of ArmRusgasprom were
transferred to Russia has sparked public in Armenia.