RA Ex-Premier Welcomes ArmenTel Purchase By VympelCom

RA EX-PREMIER WELCOMES ARMENTEL PURCHASE BY VYMPELCOM

PanARMENIAN.Net
06.11.2006 13:17 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "In 1998, when we put the stocks for sale I
regretted there was no Russian companies among the aspirants,"
said RA Ex-Prime Minister, rector of the Russia-Armenian (Slavonic)
University, professor Armen Darbinian when commenting on the sale of
Armenian telecommunications company ArmenTel’s 90% stocks to Russian
VympelCom. In his words, the process of initial capital accumulation
and allocation of Russian actives was not over in Russia at that time.

"In 2001 an intense search for extra investment projects was launched
first of all among the Russian leading enterprises. Certainly, the
price of these actives has changed but today the Russian companies are
ready to pay for the possibility of expansion and this gratifies,"
the RAU rector said. "I welcome this bargain and I am glad that a
Russian company has become the owner of the Armenian telecommunication
operator. I know VympelCom as a serious company and wish it every
success at the Armenian market," he resumed, RAU Spokesman Roman
Nadirian told PanARMENIAN.Net.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS