Former minister Karen Chshmarityan assures that being a parliamentarian is much more honorable.
– Was it your decision to leave your portfolio and become a parliamentarian, or whether you had to leave it?
– It was my personal decision and there was political decision, too.
– But you will work in the parliament like a common lawmaker. What do you think is there anything to do in the legislative sector?
– Certainly, there are legislative initiatives both for by law and the parliamentarians’ behavior. The parliamentarian with his missions is a higher institution for the country.
– You have led the Ministry of Economic Development for about 8 years, and you haven’t ever wanted to go to the legislative sector, wasn’t it so important for you that time?
– I was elected as a parliamentarian in 2003 but as there was a problem to finish the first phase of reforms, I didn’t leave the executive sector. The first phase of reforms is already over. Now we should make qualitative amendments, so there is a lot of things to do in the National Assembly.
– But you are a common lawmaker, while there was an opinion that you will lead the new formed standing commission of economic development.
– Now I have time to be engaged in legislative initiatives.
– Before the formation of the new government, a lot of analyses were done that Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan’s close ministers will be dismissed from the executive sector. What is your opinion about it?
– So you also think that it is bad when the minister becomes a lawmaker. But it isn\’t your fault, it is a general opinion.
– What is your heritage for Nerses Yeritsyan?
– You will ask him in 100 days.
– Maybe you have done everything, and he has nothing to do.
– No, if it was so that ministry should be closed but there are a lot of things to do, new conceptions which Mr. Yeritsyan have to do.
– What is your opinion about Coalition «plus» Dashnaktsutiun co-operation?
– Each kind of co-operation is effective for our country if it aims for the prosperity of the country.