{"id":248265,"date":"2014-02-05T18:38:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T14:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=248265"},"modified":"2014-02-05T18:40:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T14:40:24","slug":"armenian-official-unable-to-say-whether-gazprom-fulfilling-its-obligations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/02\/05\/armenian-official-unable-to-say-whether-gazprom-fulfilling-its-obligations.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Official Unable to Say Whether Gazprom Fulfilling its Obligations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Government of Armenia is no longer accumulating a debt in its relations with the Russian company Gazprom, Public Services Regulatory Commission chief Robert Nazaryan said in Armenia&#39;s National Assembly today, replying to Armenian National Congress MP Hrant Bagratyan&#39;s question. At the same time, Nazaryan noted that the information he has is not precise, as this matter is not within his Commission&#39;s jurisdiction.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, from 2011 to 2013, Gazprom increased the price of gas to Armenia; however, the ruling authorities did not report this during various elections (presidential, parliamentary, municipal), calculating the gas at its former price, as a result of which the country accumulated a $300 million debt to the Russian state company.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBagratyan also inquired about the salary of ArmRosGazprom employees, in particular members of the board of directors. However, the state official said he could not answer this question.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;The average salary is 227,000 dram [about $554 USD]. The directors&#39; salary is not our problem. They don&#39;t have a right to spend more than the salary fund we established,&quot; Nazaryan said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe opposition MP also asked whether the gas supplier fulfills its regulatory obligations, such as importing new pipes for residential buildings once every 5 years. Nazaryan once again said he cannot clearly answer this question, as the Commission conducts selective inspections and have not discovered any violations so far.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe MP, in turn, said the pipes of the building in which he lives have not been replaced in the past 14 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Armenia is no longer accumulating a debt in its relations with the Russian company Gazprom, Public Services Regulatory Commission chief&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14820,18073,50559,53119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}