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    `NAIRIT' EMPLOYEES PROTESTING

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    02-11-2004

    'Nairit' hasn't run for 6 months. Factory was stopped in June for
    re-equipment and re-functioning a few days later but it
    didn't. Theemployees of the factory anxious for the fate of it have
    today held a protest action and demanded for their salaries of 2
    recent months and the debt frozen.

    'Trade and Economic Development Minister Karen Chshmarityan announced
    from Parliament rostrum that Kirov debt had been settled but we don't
    have money for bread. We haven't been paid to the old debt. Moreover,
    the new leadership doesn 't pay salary of 2 recent months', factory
    employee Alexan Margaryan said at the conversation with us.

    He informed that the employees are resolute. `90% of the staff sitsat
    home. We neither work, nor get money. Court refused to accept our
    application reasoning the administration has settled the
    issue. Salaries are frozen. Government doesn't hear our voices. But we
    will insist on our demand',they say.

    Mr. Margaryan is also anxious for the fate of the factory. He says
    because of the debt of a few million drams electricity supply for the
    factory had been ceased the day before since 11:00 AM whereas to
    provide safety of chloroprene it is necessary to keep it cold for 24
    hours.

    '1 million drams are spent daily to keep chlorine. The whole raw
    materials may spoil because of cutting electricity supply once, not
    even mentioning the ecological danger', Margaryan says.

    Fortunately, last midnight electricity supply was restored but for a
    week only until the matter is somehow regulated.

    Tomorrow `Nairit' staff will march to Government building and then to
    Presidential Residence demanding to solve `Nairit' problems.
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