Pashinyan finances Soros NGOs with the funds of RA taxpayers

The Armenian government has allocated financial resources to two Armenian organizations supported by the West, particularly the American billionaire, global financial speculator George Soros’ “Open Society Funds”, to carry out an observation mission in the upcoming local government elections in Artsakh.

We are talking about the Stepanakert office of the “Union of Conscious Citizens” NGO and the “Transparency International” anti-corruption center. According to today’s decision of the executive, which was adopted unanimously, around 50 million drams will be allocated to these two organizations.

Deputy Head of Government Staff Tsovinar Soghomonyan mentioned that local self-government elections will be held in Artsakh in September 2019. Based on the principle of holding free, fair, transparent and democratic elections adopted by the RA government, it is appropriate for the civil society in Artsakh to support the implementation of the election observation mission.

Thus, the non-governmental organization “Union of Conscious Citizens” and the anti-corruption center “Transparency International” have expressed their desire to conduct an observation mission for the local government elections to be held in Artsakh on September 8. They propose to allocate 33 million 680 thousand drams to the Prime Minister’s Office in 9 months from the reserve fund of the RA government provided for in the 2019 state budget to the above organizations. in order to provide on the basis of the grant agreement. 16 million 200 thousand drams will be allocated to “Union of Informed Citizens” Stepanakert office to the non-governmental organization, and 17 million 480 thousand drams to the “Transparency International” anti-corruption center.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made the adoption of this project important. “As I have stated, the Armenian government and I personally believe that RA should provide additional support to guarantee the free expression of the people of Artsakh,” the Prime Minister said, adding that this decision is within the framework of these measures. The Prime Minister considered the decision unprecedented.

It is worth noting that these two structures fed by Soros and other western foundations made a rather serious contribution to the implementation of the “Velvet Revolution”. They and other structures financed by the Soros Foundation were working with all their infrastructure and resources for the implementation of the revolution. In addition, these two structures, and more specifically the “Union of Conscious Citizens” have been openly conducting anti-Russian propaganda for years, spreading comments, informative videos and texts on the Internet.

As for the “Transparency International” anti-corruption center, this organization, in addition to trying to carry out an observation mission, is quite closely connected with the executive.

So, let’s see who are the members of the general assembly of “Transparency International” anti-corruption center.

• Araik Harutyunyan – RA Minister of Education and Science

• Liana Ghaltaghchyan – Deputy Chief of Staff of the RA Prime Minister

• Christine Margaryan – coordinator of human resources and organizational development, TI NGO

• Lena Nazaryan – Deputy Chairman, RA National Assembly

• Sarhat Petrosyan – Head of RA real estate cadastre committee

• Heriknaz Tigranyan – Deputy Chairman, Standing Committee on Health and Social Affairs of the RA National Assembly