{"id":249510,"date":"2014-02-25T15:28:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T11:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=249510"},"modified":"2014-02-25T15:29:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T11:29:42","slug":"armenian-mps-debate-work-of-commission-to-study-gas-contracts-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/02\/25\/armenian-mps-debate-work-of-commission-to-study-gas-contracts-with-russia.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian MPs Debate Work of Commission to Study Gas Contracts with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The ruling coalition in Armenia&#39;s National Assembly is sure that the commission to study the gas contracts with Russia being &quot;closed doors&quot; won&#39;t prevent it from being transparent in its work. Ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) MP Margarit Yesayan said that after commission meetings the non-coalition parties are free to tell the media whatever they like; that is, whatever happened at the meeting.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNote, the &quot;gas commission&quot; is set to examine gas contracts signed between Russia and Armenia last year regarding gas prices, the debt to Russia and the sale of ArmRosGazprom&#39;s shares.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tYesayan also touched upon the non-ruling coalition parties&#39; dissatisfaction with the fact that the commission chair must be from the HHK. &quot;That&#39;s why the parliamentary majority is the majority, so that it can have a majority in the commission as well, and the chair be from the majority,&quot; she said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRule of Law (OEK) MP Hovhannes Margaryan, in turn, said he has experience in coordinating the work of similar parliamentary committees. As an example, he cited the March 1 Commission, the chair of which likewise was a HHK representative (Samvel Nikoyan).&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHead of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF-D) parliamentary faction Armen Rustamyan said the approach of his party toward the gas commission is very clear. &quot;We&#39;ve never pursued PR goals. The proof is that the ARF-D proposed creating a gas commission back in 2010. I don&#39;t like this secrecy [of the commission being closed doors], but nothing can stop me from saying what I want outside.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHead of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) faction Levon Zurabyan, in turn, asked a question: Will this be a commission to bury or uncover the truth?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tProsperous Armenia Party MP Naira Zohrabyan said she doesn&#39;t doubt that the HHK has no intention of telling the truth about the gas deal. &quot;If that was your purpose, you wouldn&#39;t turn the state into a gas company&#39;s fan club, a subsidiary of a gas company,&quot; she said, adding that on principle, her party would like the commission to make its conclusion public in May not in November, as proposed by the HHK.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAlso weighing in on the matter, parliamentary speaker Hovik Abrahamyan said it&#39;s not right to discredit a commission that hasn&#39;t been created yet. He assured the MPs that the commission will work well, and the fact that it will work behind closed doors cannot be cause for concern if &quot;MPs won&#39;t engage in demagoguery.&quot;<\/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>Also weighing in on the matter, parliamentary speaker Hovik Abrahamyan said it&#8217;s not right to discredit a commission that hasn&#8217;t been created yet.<!-- 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":249492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14645,53158,15144,13287,12178,39539,24852],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249510"}],"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=249510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}