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    ARMINFO News Agency
    September 29, 2006 Friday

    ARMENIAN OPPOSITIONIST CRITICIZES CURRENT LEVEL OF ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN
    RELATIONS


    Today Armenian-Russian coopeartion often goes down from the level of
    inter-state relations to the level of inter-clan ties between groups
    of corrupt officials, says the leader of the opposition New Times
    party Aram Karapetyan.

    As a result, instead of creating JVs, especially in spheres where
    Armenia is not self-sufficient, the sides sign agreements like Assets
    Against Debts. Karapetyan strongly objects to the transfer of
    Armenia's property to other countries. It would be quite a different
    story if Russia decided to set up, say, a JV to develop aircraft
    construction in Armenia - a sphere our country has nothing to do
    with.

    Karapetyan says that the Assets Against Debts agreement was signed as
    a result of pressure. This is an American approach - when a country
    gains foothold in a region by obtaining its property. That's exactly
    what Russia is doing in Armenia. The participants in the
    anti-criminal movement are going to investigate into the
    circumstances of the singing of the Assets Against Debts agreement.

    Karapetyan's opponent RPA member Hamlet Haroutyunyan says that there
    is hardly any politician in Armenia who will agree to grant our
    strategic spheres to other countries. There was no pressure during
    the singing of the Assets Against Debts agreement. As regards the
    concessions to Russia, this is done for ensuring Armenia's national
    security.

    To remind, Armenia has given Russia 5 companies against its $100 mln
    debt to that country: Hrazdan thermal power plant, research
    institutes of mathematical sciences, material study amd automatized
    control systems and Mars plant.
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