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    IN KARABAKH THEY ARE EAGER TO KNOW WHY ARMENIA FOUNDATION DOES NOT HURRY

    Lragir.am
    01 Aug 06

    The society in Nagorno Karabakh is worried why Armenia Foundation
    does not hurry to start the reconstruction of Martakert, for which 7
    million dollars were raised during the November 2005 telethon. The
    Lragir has wrote about this for several times, pointing to the
    controversies between the NKR government and the leadership of Armenia
    Foundation. We have written that the Karabakh government does not
    want Naira Melkumyan to continue to be the chief executive of the
    foundation. The prime minister of Karabakh announced two months
    ago that the foundation is to blame for postponing the project
    of reconstruction of Martakert. Afterwards the foundation made an
    official release on the reconstruction of the project of Martakert.

    The Karabakhopen.com published an article by Murad Petrosyan, the
    editor of the Chto Delat Newspaper in Stepanakert where the author
    says the reason of the slow pace of the foundation is that in the
    Armenian reality moral reputation, sense of duty and organizational
    abilities are overlooked in appointing key officials.

    "If Ms. Melkumyan, the executive director of Armenia Foundation
    possessed the abovementioned traits, would she sit on 5 million
    dollars, which have a definite addressee, for 8 months?" asks Murad
    Petrosyan.

    He says the later construction of infrastructure in Martakert is
    put out to tender and the longer the money for construction remains
    in the bank, the more income the money will bring. "And if now Ms.

    Melkumyan pays herself a salary of 2000 U.S. dollars, soon she will
    be able to increase this sum up to 3-4 thousand. If presently she
    has three managers and three assistants, soon she will be able to
    increase their number up to 6," writes Murad Petrosyan. However, he
    says, it would be wrong to blame only Naira Melkumyan for the slow
    reconstruction of Martakert.

    "First of all, the one who appointed her is to blame. Second, the NKR
    government and NKR President Ghukasyan are to blame for this situation,
    as well as the government of Armenia, and especially Robert Kocharyan,
    who is the president of the board of trustees of Armenia Foundation,"
    thinks Murad Petrosyan.

    According to him, the laziness of the president of the board of
    trustees would be explicable if only Artsakh were dissatisfied with
    the activities of the foundation. Murad Petrosyan says, however,
    that complaints were heard on the airwaves of Radio Liberty, which
    is broadcast in the large Armenian Diasporan communities. Murad
    Petrosyan writes that this is the reason why he cannot understand
    the calm attitude of Robert Kocharyan towards all this, especially
    that soon there will be another telethon for Shushi and Hadrut.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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