Wasn't the disaster serious?
"You ignore my calls," Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Hovik Abrahamian said during today's NA sitting.
Mr. Abrahamian got indignant after Heritage MP Stepan Safarian informed his fellow colleagues about today's abduction of a witness in the case of Miasnik Malkhasian by the police.
By meaning "calls" the NA Speaker meant that Safarian's time for speech had expired.
MP Victor Dallakian spoke about Vanadzor's chemical factory and Yerevan's Nairit Plant.
Two months ago Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian visited the two plants and considered the key problems.
"No measures have been taken in Vanadzor to address the problems so far. In the case of Nairit we witnessed the blast. Who is the owner of Nairit? Which are the reasons for the blast?" wondered Victor Dallakian.
The minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Armen Movsisian answered the question. He said serious works are underway in the Vanadzor plant but the global economic crisis affects the work. The Minister didn't have time to refer to the problems of Nairit. He only said he didn't know Nairit's owner and the reasons for the explosion. "The aftermaths of the disaster were much more serious than the disaster: we had four victims."
Vahan Hovhannisian referred to Turkey's recent statements according to which Turkey has set prerequisite in Armenian-Turkish relations.
"It is high time our government sped up the construction of an Iran-Armenia railway and resettled Nagorno Karabakh," said the deputy.
"The relations with Turkey must be bettered without any preconditions," Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian reiterated Serzh Sargsyan's words. "All documents must be ratified by the National Assembly which means everything will be made public. The issue of the Armenian Genocide can never be neglected."
