EcoLur
On 27 June the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan held a consultation with the officials in charge of economic policy in the Republic of Armenia, where they continued their discussions on energy safety in Armenia, further improvement of this system and finding solutions to the current problems. The president covered the problems in detailed, “I’m deeply convinced that increase in price is justified. I’m also convinced, if we don’t raise the price, the energy system will face collapse with domino effect. Eventually, our older generation will never forget the consequences of closing the nuclear power station in 1988, when we all were happy with getting rid of this bracketed evil, but then it turned out, that the real evil was closing down the nuclear power station, which still leaves its negative impact till now. The same happened with Nairit: closing down it and getting out of its natural development cycle we got a reality, when the state today has to and is forced to spend additional funds in this direction.
I’m proposing to select an experienced international consultation company with high reputation in energy field, if needed, we can include several active protesters in the selection process and assign this company to reply the following questions with the involvement of an audit company:
· To what extent the increase in electricity price was grounded, and
· What jeopardizes energy system, if the price is not increased.
Till the opinion of the company is available, the government will take the burden of increasing the price. Definitely we won’t touch current programs or social expenses, we will find other funds. If the opinion confirms the grounds for increasing price, from that moment the consumers will start paying this tariff beyond any doubts.
If the opinion confirms ungrounded nature of electricity price increase, the government will take measures to refund additionally paid funds from the electric networks and to bring malfunctioned officials to justice.
Please, stop closing the city center and the responsibility burden will increase on all of us, take calmer measures, free Baghramyan Avenue and help to find solutions and to strengthen confidence towards each other.
June 27, 2015 at 19:21