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“Zhamanak” suggests that the current budget debate in the parliament is more evidence that the change of the government in April has failed to bring any essential change in the economy. “This is clear from the draft budget and the macroeconomic processes that it implies. While this year the government of Hovik Abrahamian partly inherited the problems of the previous government of Tigran Sarkisian, then 2015 is fully the Abrahamian government’s. But, as we can see from the introduced draft budget, the prime minister plans nothing new for next year.”

Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) lawmaker Artsvik Minasian tells “Haykakan Zhamanak” that their party has respect for members of the public who attend the rallies of the opposition “trio” and demand changes. But he raises a few questions regarding the actions of the three political parties: “What is the integral set of demands that meets the expectations of the public and that the opposition is making to the government?.. It is not effective to gather people for a rally and again speak about the same old problems without having a concrete plan of action and steps. And such steps in Armenia’s current political reality are closely connected with the need for a constitutional reform, something that the three parties reject.”

“Hayots Ashkhar” summarizes the meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serzh Sarkisian and Ilham Aliyev, that was held in Paris, France, on October 27. “The terse reports about the meeting are not an obstacle to evaluating its results. The main feature of the Paris talks was that as compared to the previous high-level meeting this time the geopolitical status of one of the parties to the negotiations, Armenia, had changed. By joining the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) on October 10 Armenia managed to escape from the ‘Eurasian Blockade’ trap that had been set for it by Turkey and Azerbaijan through the president of Kazakhstan. Looking at it retrospectively, one can see that Baku tried to drive Armenia to the corner to continue its policy of blackmail in the Karabakh issue, but after Armenia became a member of the EEU this policy, apart from becoming meaningless, has also become quite dangerous.”

According to “168 Zham”, the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources has finally submitted to the government the promised package of proposals on the idling Nairit chemical plant, a package that was to have been submitted still in late August. In this connection the paper writes: “The contents of this package consist of only two pages and the proposals do not concern the reoperation of the plant but pursue totally different goals. It is suggested that salaries of workers be considerably reduced and, first of all, the matter concerns the workers of retirement age. As a result, instead of today’s 2,246 workers, only 478 may remain in the plant.”

(Tigran Avetisian)

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