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    PRO-RUSSIAN POLITICIAN SAYS ARMENIA HANDING NEW ENERGY FACILITIES TO RUSSIA

    Armenpress

    YEREVAN, MARCH 31, ARMENPRESS: A senior member of Armenian
    parliament has dismissed today allegations by a local pro-opposition
    newspaper-Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Time) that the fifth unit of
    the biggest Armenian thermal power plant in central Armenian town of
    Hrazdan will be handed over to Russia.

    Gagik Minasian, head of a parliament commission on financial and
    economic issues, a guest speaker at a discussion on energy security
    of Armenia with Aram Karapetian, the leader of pro-Russian Nor
    Zhamanakner (New Times) party, described the report as 'rumors.'
    Minasian argued that when construction of Iran-Armenia gas pipeline
    would be accomplished, when domestic energy production potential
    would be used fully and when the Yerevan thermal power plant would
    be modernized and the fifth unit of Hrazdan thermal power plant
    would be operative Armenia's power grid would be diversified and
    more independent.

    He said all these measures would help increase power production by
    power generating facilities other than the nuclear power plant from
    current 1.8 billion kilowatt/hours to 3.7 billion in ten years. He
    said IAEA experts agree that Armenia needs to replace its Soviet-style
    nuclear power plant by a new one.

    Construction of a new nuclear power plant would cost more than $1
    billion. He argued that the parliament must revise an old law on
    atomic energy to allow private investments.

    Minasian refrained from denying or confirming rumors that 45 percent
    of shares in Iran-Armenia gas pipeline can be sold to Russia, but Aram
    Karapetian described it as a 'forgone conclusion,' adding that the
    fifth unit of Hrazdan plant will also be given to Russia. "If these
    facilities should be sold they must be sold to Russians only,' he said.
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