Aram Manukyan: Who asked ENA to get involved in philanthropy?
“I do not like shows. We must find a solution to the problem of electricity,” Mikael Melkumyan, a lawmaker representing the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) faction, said in the National Assembly today addressing the Chairman of Public Services Regulatory Commission Robert Nazaryan. Mr Melkumyan said he was not Nostradamus to predict the new electricity tariffs and advised drafting a realistic balance. Robert Nazaryan said he had already offered a solution and was ready to hear other opinions if there were such. This was followed by Vardan Ayvazyan, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs of the National Assembly, asking the other MPs to address their questions to Mr Nazaryan. Just at that moment Aram Manukyan, Secretary of the Armenian National Congress (HAK), said Vardan Ayvazyan was violating the order it as it was his turn to ask a question. After a small argument, Vardan Ayvazyan gave him the right to ask a question. “I shall not give my turn to anybody else. My name is the first on the list,” Mr Manukyan said. Aram Manukyan’s question referred to the charities carried out by the Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA). What charitable activities are you speaking about? “The charity you are speaking about was carried out at the expense of ordinary people. Those include the construction of Hovik Abrahamyan’s church, marriages in orphanages, christening of children. Who allowed the ENA to reconstruct a church? Who asked them to get involved in philanthropy? I do not possess any evidence that people have not paid electricity tariffs and the debt has amounted to 3 billion drams. Robert Nazaryan assured Mr Harutyunyan that the ENA carried out those ativities in Armenia. “But I do not care why they did it,” he said.
