Category: 2018

A number of expressions made by the acting Prime Minister yesterday and today are the most obvious manifestations of hate speech, which cross all permissible limits of political struggle, as well as violate a number of human and moral principles, for example, targeting a woman.

This was stated in the message released by the RPA Central pre-election headquarters. “Such behavior is unprecedented in our political culture, especially by a high-ranking official, namely the prime minister responsible for the safety and well-being of all of us.

In our statement, we had the occasion to refer to the abuse of administrative resources by the acting prime minister, one outstanding example of which is that, while officially on vacation, the acting prime minister used to issue threats to elected officials and, in fact, gave the police instructions for mandatory execution.

We invite the attention of the Central Electoral Commission, the Defender of Human Rights and international observation missions to the speeches, behavior and rhetoric of the acting Prime Minister”, – said in the statement of the Central Election Headquarters of the RPA.

Nikol Pashinyan, the leader of the “My Step” alliance in Spitak, addressed the criticisms directed at Sasun Mikayelyan, the candidate of the same alliance, during the campaign, in particular, those criticisms. “Sasun Mikayelyan’s body has an “askolka” equal to your weight. The size of your weight. Who are you defending the Artsakh liberation war from? You, who for many years not only watched and led the looting of the army, but now you want to protect your right to loot the army with your nails. I will not allow you,” Pashinyan declared.

Then he continued his speech, asking: “How, is there still a person in this country who dares to frighten a citizen?” We will make them all lie down on the asphalt, who are these people, what kind of republican, what kind of oligarch, what kind of fat man, what kind of muscle man, we will make you all lie down on the asphalt and you will not get up from those asphalts for years.

And now I say to the police, yes, don’t try to push anyone, don’t try to push a single criminal element, it will become a thief, it will become an authority, we will kill everyone with walls. You will put your heads on the wall, you will scare the citizen, say your names, you should not come out of the holes. Your place is in prisons, you will all end up in prisons. Whether you are a criminal, an authority figure or a thief, don’t mess with these elections, don’t try to coerce the people. Republican village heads, sit in your cabinets and work normally, don’t try to tell the citizen who to vote for. The citizen knows well who to vote for.”

RPA vice-chairman Aren Ashotyan informs that he is in the investigative department of Yerevan with a case that has been dragging on for several months. At the moment, I am in Yerevan’s investigative department in an absurd case that has been going on for several months, still as a witness. RPA Vice President Aren Ashotyan wrote about this on his Facebook page.

“The last time they were invited for questioning about two months ago. I will tell the details of the case and today in the evening. I will also address the question of what it means to cut off the Republican propaganda officer and one of the main critics of the current regime from the short-term election campaign.

One thing is clear: I am working well,” Ashotyan’s note says.

In October, the SIS processed the allegations related to the circumstances of Ashotyan’s being an employee of the Department of Biochemistry of the Yerevan State Medical University.

This day Armen Ashotyan assessed him as “a futile attempt to threaten and pressure”.

Then the CSI issued a message calling on Ashotyan to refrain from spreading falsehoods about the structure.

“A. We suggest to Ashotyan to publish the facts of the threat addressed to him by the RA Special Investigation Service, including the information of the RA SIS official who threatened him, otherwise we expect a public denial from him and urge him to refrain from spreading falsehoods against the RA Special Investigation Service from now on,” said the SIS message.

On the third day of the campaign, Eduard Sharmazanov, speaker of the Republican Party of Armenia and deputy candidate, said live on Facebook that he will be in all communities of Lori region to present the 11-year activity.

He also referred to an important event that took place yesterday in Lori Marz. “Representatives of today’s government, headed by the acting prime minister, visited, and I regret to say that a person had deteriorated in the hospitable Lori, and that deteriorated person was Nikol Pashinyan, no less, no more. The case had reached the point where he was threatening, blackmailing, waving his finger, spreading the asphalt, and grabbing the necks of the residents of Lorraine right and left. Dear friend, the Ski Turks could not grab the people of Lorraine by the neck or spread them on the asphalt. In 2018, in the battle of Gharakilisa, the glorious people of Lorraine defended Armenia with Nzhdeh,” he said.

Sharmazanov called for a political debate. “What does it mean to spread the asphalt, grab the neck? Are you a prime minister or an asphalt spreader? How can you descend to that level? Is this a political debate or a Kuchi bazaar?” he said, adding that he felt bad for such a leader of the country.

“You have a plan, go and present it. Do you have to decide whether the RPA should exist or not? The RPA was and will be during the Soviet Union. People like you will come and go, but Ashot Navasardyan’s party will remain. This is a party of ideas,” he said, and then he referred to Pashinyan’s call not to elect the RPA.

“What are you trying to do, don’t vote for RPA? This is a free election, whoever wants to vote, why did you go after the poor village heads? Each village head is the cream of the community, it is the collective will. Every village head is more legitimate than you today, and don’t try to talk to the people of Lori in that tone, they will choose you: congratulations, they will choose us, let them choose us, why are you so bad, brother, don’t forget, you are the head of the state, not for good,” he said.

Sharmazanov also spoke about Pashinyan’s observation that he was approached and told that the village heads were threatening them to elect the RPA.

“Your supporters are scaring you, according to the news in the air, you take state employees to rallies, you terrorize the voters with your speech, you wave your finger at the voters, the voter will break your finger on December 9. There is a place for asphalt workers in Moscow, take your team, go, spread it, we don’t need an asphalt worker, we need a head of state,” he said.

RPA First Vice-President Vigen Sargsyan addressed acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

“Given that for the third day you are building your campaign on scaring the people with the Republicans, deepening your vicious policy of dividing the society between blacks and whites, as well as the fact that during the campaign you allow the election process to be vulgarized in the most ugly and indecent way, keeping my commitment to participate in the debate organized in the Public No. 1 of all parties participating in the elections, I still consider it necessary to have a separate bilateral debate – My move RPA format at the level of numbers 1.

I suggest holding the debate on three TV channels (public and one each of your choice and mine), with two hosts (one each of your choice and mine), with 4-6 topics (half of your choice and half of mine), with the possibility of sending each other questions. Considering your overload, I leave the choice of the day of the debate to your discretion,” wrote Sargsyan.

At this stage of the investigation of the March 1 criminal case, there is a need for the second president of the Republic of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, to be in custody. RA General Prosecutor Artur Davtyan said this in a conversation with journalists, presenting the position of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Armenia

According to him, the position of the prosecutor’s office is that Robert Kocharyan should remain in custody, for which they provide justifications. “These justifications prove that at this stage of the investigation there is a need for the second president to be in custody. I think only the court knows what decision the court will make,” said Artur Davtyan.

Referring to the decision of the Court of Cassation, which overturned the decision of the Court of Appeal to abolish the detention of Robert Kocharyan on the grounds of immunity and sent the case to the Court of Appeal for a new examination, Artur Davtyan explained in detail what question the Court of Cassation answered with that decision.

“Do you remember the most basic question being discussed in broad circles is whether or not the president is endowed with immunity after taking office or not? And the Court of Cassation, in fact, agreeing with the arguments of the complaint brought by me, confirmed that the fact that the act attributed to him is considered to be based on his status or not based on his status is of essential importance here.

And most importantly, already canceling the relevant decision of the Court of Appeals and thus the approach of the Court of Appeals that the second president of the Republic of Armenia is in fact endowed with immunity, and the actions attributed to him were considered by the Court of Appeals as stemming from the president’s functions, the Court of Cassation gave a clear answer that the circumstance of stemming from the functions should not be considered only from a formal point of view.

In other words, for example, does the president have the authority or right to adopt a relevant legal act or not, but it is necessary to consider whether the implementation of the authority fully complies with the Constitution or the laws in terms of content,” said Davtyan.

Robert Kocharyan, let’s remind, is accused of subverting the constitutional order with a group of people in the case of March 1.

On July 27, Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction chose a two-month detention as a preventive measure against him. On August 13, however, the Court of Appeal overturned that decision of the first instance solely on the basis of the immunity granted to the President by the Constitution.

Both Robert Kocharyan’s defense attorneys and Chief Prosecutor Artur Davtyan appealed to the Court of Cassation to appeal the decision of the Court of Appeal to cancel Kocharyan’s restraining order. The Court of Cassation partially satisfied only the prosecutor’s complaint.

More than 200 interrogations and more than 70 searches were conducted in the case of Manvel Grigoryan. Sasun Khachatryan, the head of the Special Investigation Service, announced this in a conversation with journalists.

He noted that part of Manvel Grigoryan’s real estate was acquired through violations, reports Aysor.am.

“It turned out that some of the real estate documents found in the area belonging to Grigoryan were acquired through violations. I have already appealed to the Minister of Territorial Administration and Development to return 40 real estates to the community,” he said.

Sasun Khachatryan also said that letters were sent to 15 countries in this case, and the financial violations amount to 15 billion drams.

It became known earlier that the Special Investigative Service (SSI) does not intend to act on the motion to replace the detention of General Manvel Grigoryan with another means of disruption.

It became known earlier that Manvel Grigoryan is donating land worth 5.84 billion drams or $10.5 million to the state. He appealed to the government to donate to the Republic of Armenia the area of ​​330 hectares owned by the company “Aknalchi Farming Farm” in the Aknalich community. It includes buildings with an area of ​​5445 square meters.

On the evening of June 17, the National Security Service published the video of the search in the private house and summer house belonging to Manvel Grigoryan. In addition to a large amount of weapons and ammunition, a huge amount of property and food belonging to the army was confiscated, aid sent to the army by schoolchildren, churches and citizens during the April War, which was used to feed Grigoryan’s animals, as well as cars donated to the army. Grigoryan was arrested.

Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan will meet with the parents of Karen Ghazaryan, who was captured in Azerbaijan, on November 28. According to “Armenpress”, Pashinyan said this during the pre-election rally of “My step” party alliance in Noyemberyan city.

“Today I have to meet Karen Ghazaryan’s parents at the municipality. My wife also visited them twice. Azerbaijan made a semi-official offer to exchange 3 Azerbaijanis in Artsakh with 3 Armenians in Azerbaijan. But in Artsakh, 2 citizens of Azerbaijan have been sentenced to 20 years, the other to life imprisonment, because they killed citizens of Artsakh. Now the question is: will the relatives of those murdered citizens agree that Artsakh returns those who killed their children to Azerbaijan? It is clear that Azerbaijan will create new Ramil Safarovs from those criminals. Do we want to bear the political and practical consequences of this? A young man was confused by Turkey and crossed the border, and we sent him to his country without preconditions. It would be logical for them to return Karen in the same way. We dealt with the Karen issue and we are also dealing with the channel obtained by the Dushanbe agreement. It is a simple, humanitarian issue, and we will make every effort to reach a solution to this issue,” said Pashinyan.

Nikol Pashinyan mentioned that there is a hypothesis that Karen was kidnapped from her house.

“People have fears and questions about the level of border protection. There is doubt, of course, that Karen was abducted from her home, but there is no proof yet. I will definitely discuss this issue once again with the representatives of our armed forces. If it is necessary to take measures, we will take them,” he said.

Karen Ghazaryan, a resident of Berdavan community, in 2018. He has been captured since July 15 and is in Azerbaijan.

2019 year of services provided by “Veolia water” CJSC. there will be no expected tariff increase. The RA Ministry of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources informs about this.

According to the lease agreement and the license No. LJ 0001 granted to “Veolia Water” CJSC by the RA PSC, each year a review (adjustment) of the drinking water supply and water drainage (wastewater treatment) services provided by the company to subscribers, including retail tariffs, is planned.

In accordance with the requirements of the current legislation, in August of this year, Veolia Water Company submitted an application to review (adjust) the tariffs in 2019. for It provided for an increase in the current tariff of about AMD 14 per cubic meter of water, including VAT.

On November 19, 2019 was held at the RA PSC with the participation of all interested parties. working discussion of the application.

According to its results, taking into account the data of the monitoring of the volumes of retail water supply carried out within the framework of the application, it was decided to submit for the approval of the commission session of the RA PSC, a project on setting the total retail tariff for drinking water supply and drainage services provided by “Veolia Water” CJSC at 202,272 drams/cubic meter, including VAT, which is an increase of 10,858 drams. 2018 from the current tariff.

In order to ease the social burden of the subscribers, the Ministry of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources appealed to the “Veolia Water” company in order to negotiate the possibility of not applying the tariff increase resulting from the requirements of the lease contract and license to the subscribers, offering an alternative financing method.

Aiming to reduce the social burden of consumers, “Veolia water” company accepts the presented offer and postpones the 2019. the application of a legal increase in the monetary retail tariff for drinking water supply and drainage services provided for

In turn, the Water Committee of the EEPRN agrees to reduce and postpone the 2019 investment obligations of “Veolia Water” to the extent of the loss of income caused by this, and in the meantime to carry out the planned investments in the system from the savings of loan funds provided to the Water Committee for the implementation of projects.

I will not hide that there were also discussions in Minsk about the General Secretariat of the CSTO. Ararat Mirzoyan, Acting First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, announced this in a conversation with journalists.

He constructively assesses the discussion on the General Secretariat of the CSTO with the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko during the small session of the Prime Ministers of the EEU countries in Minsk.

Ararat Mirzoyan replied to the question whether the issue surrounding the CSTO General Secretary and the latest statements were discussed with Lukashenko. “I represented Armenia in the EAEU Governmental Council, within the framework of which a meeting of prime ministers, including me, was held with the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko with

During the meeting, various issues were discussed, including complex issues, including those not directly related to the EEU, but related to other formats of this partnership, I will not hide it, we also talked about the General Secretariat of the CSTO. Of course, I won’t give details, because it was a closed discussion, but I can assure you that the discussion and the position of the Russian Prime Minister, the President of Belarus, and our other partners were quite constructive.”

He confirmed that they also talked about Lukashenko’s meeting with the ambassador of Azerbaijan, to which Nikol Pashinyan reacted strongly. “We talked about all nuances, all sub-issues, but with your permission I will not give details.”

When asked to what extent he considers this controversy resolved, Mirzoyan answered: “It’s not a contradiction, I would call it a problem. If there is partnership in different formats, there are also problems that are solved or not solved. This is one of those problems. Of course, the issue was not resolved yesterday, because first of all, it was not that format, this was an EEU meeting, not a CSTO meeting, naturally, it could not be resolved. But soon another meeting of CSTO will take place and then maybe the issue will be resolved. The discussion I participated in was very constructive.”

On November 28, President Armen Sarkissian, who is in the Federal Republic of Germany on an official visit, had a working breakfast with the heads of a number of leading German companies that operate in Armenia or are interested in cooperation with Armenia. The meeting was organized by the RA Embassy in Germany, OWC Publishing House, the Eastern Commission of the German Economy and “Eastern Europe. by the Union of Small and Medium Businessmen.

Heads of “Zepelin”, “Siemens”, SAP, “Nokia”, “Schneider Group”, “Airbus Group” and other companies took part in the meeting.

Noting that a number of companies with the participation of German capital are successfully operating in various sectors of Armenia’s economy, President Sargsyan at the same time expressed his belief that there is still a great potential to expand these sectors and deepen cooperation.

Noting that the 21st century is a period of rapid changes, the president of the republic said that Armenia is the right country, which is in the right place at the right time. “It’s the right time because we live in the beginning of the 21st century. This is a time when everything is changing very quickly. It’s no secret that I recently finished my book called The Quantum Behavior of Global Risks. By quantum I do not mean that the rules of quantum mechanics can be applied. Quantum implies that this behavior is no longer classical. Change in the 21st century is dynamic, rapid and dramatic. The means by which it is possible to manage and describe risks in the 21st century are not and will not be classical. From this point of view, it is the right time for Armenia,” said President Sargsyan, noting that humanity is living in a period of rapid evolution, where every year everything changes much faster.

The President of the Republic said that Armenia has been at the crossroads of civilizations for thousands of years. “That intersection can become a bridge today, because today Armenia is the only country that is a member of EAEU, which implies that the country has not 3 million, but more than 200 million people, which includes Central Asia, Russia. In addition, Armenia has signed a deep and comprehensive agreement with the European Union, and we want to deepen relations with that body. In other words, Armenia is the only country that has deep relations with both the East and the West. Our country is in the right place,” Armen Sargsyan emphasized.

The President of the Republic presented to the businessmen the priority directions of the Armenian economy, investment attractiveness and business environment, competitive advantages of doing business in Armenia. “Armenia is an interesting place to invest. The country has great potential in various fields, from agriculture to light industry, banking and information technologies,” President Sargsyan said.

The heads of the companies operating in Armenia spoke about their current projects and the possibilities of their expansion.

President Sargsyan suggested to the other businessmen participating in the meeting to visit Armenia to study and discuss prospective directions of mutually beneficial cooperation.