The agreement to hand over the 20 percent share of “Armrusgasprom” to Russian Federation for 300 million dollars debt of our country, according to Levon Barseghyan, President of “Asbarez” Journalists Union of Armenia, is the next step leading Armenia to colonization. “With this agreement, Armenia is turned into a profit providing domain for the Russian business company. Of course, notable benefits are not expected from Armenia, but it is such heavy agreement against our country, that it can be easily called not a gas agreement, but a goose agreement,” said Mr. Barseghyan. He considers this agreement as a small part of shameful policy led by the RA authorities, and recalls what were sold over the last ten years for the debt. “10 years ago they gave Russia a property wealth worth of one billion and a half for USD 92-94 million, whereas Russia, a few days ago, cancelled Cuba’s debt of 15 billion dollars, it also cancelled the debt of more than 100 billion to a dozen African countries.”
According to him, Russia is protecting its own interests in our country, and Armenia’s “incompetent” authorities, unwilling to lose their power, hand over everything that Russia puts its finger on. “It’s too late to talk about sovereignty… it is a shameful agreement, which they are trying to validate with detained parliamentarians.” Argishti Kiviryan, Coordinator of “Armenia Today” website, also considers this agreement humiliating, which the Government of Armenia had sent to the National Assembly for ratification. “The agreement pursues only the interests of the Russian side. As to what Armenia benefits by signing such humiliating agreement, still remains unknown for the society of Armenia.” According to Kiviryan, the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Armen Movsisyan, is busy with misleading citizens during the past few months. “10 days ago, the citizens of Armenia learned that huge debts are accrued, while Armen Movsisyan is unable to clearly explain where they accrued from, under what circumstances they had incurred.” Watch the video for details.
Arpine Simonyan
