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    UNITED STATES SCRUTINIZES INVESTIGATION INTO WRONGDOINGS

    Lragir.am
    11-06-2007 13:49:27

    On June 11 the office of the Millennium Challenge Account Armenia state
    non-commercial organization was dedicated, which is located near the
    government building, across the office of the Republican Party, hardly
    10 or 15 meters away. John Danilovich, CEO MCC, participated in the
    ceremony, who has twice visited Armenia and has also written a few
    letters to the president of Armenia on the necessity for fair
    governance as an important benchmark of the Millennium Challenge
    program.

    The reporters did not have an opportunity to find out the opinion of
    John Danilovich on the program, the continuity and performance to
    benchmarks because Danilovich declined to answer their questions, and
    the officers of the Millennium Challenge Armenia said there will be no
    questions, for it is their style of work. According to the style of
    work, the symbolic tape was cut, speeches were made by John Danilovich,
    the minister of finance and economy, member of the board of the
    Millennium Challenge Account Armenia Vardan Khachatryan, and the
    resident country director of the Millennium Challenge Corporation Alex
    Russin. Danilovich and Khachatryan cut the tape, then walked about the
    office which had been set up earlier but was dedicated on June 11.
    After visiting a couple of rooms the reporters and cameramen were asked
    out.


    As to the thoughts of John Danilovich, an advocate of fair governance,
    on fair governance in Armenia, the implementation of the program and
    the performance on the benchmarks, the reporters learned from his
    speech which was fortunately open for reporters, as well as the press
    release of the U.S. Embassy which had informed beforehand what John
    Danilovich would be saying. By the way, his address to the ceremony did
    not differ from the speech that had been handed over to reporters on
    paper. At least, the satisfaction of Danilovich with the implementation
    of the Armenian program of the MCC, the efforts of the Armenian
    government, Millennium Challenge Account Armenia was expressed in both
    the text and his speech. During the address John Danilovich said the
    government is fully responsible for the program implemented in its
    country. The CEO endorsed the willingness of the Armenian government to
    assume responsibility. By the way, the prime minister of Armenia Serge
    Sargsyan had been said to take part in the ceremony of opening of the
    office with Danilovich but he did not turn up. The minister of finance
    and economy Vardan Khachatryan said Serge Sargsyan was absent because
    he was busy introducing the new ministers, and he has to visit all the
    ministries within a few hours.


    The only but perhaps the core difference between the text of the speech
    by John Danilovich and the real speech was that the statement on the
    full responsibility of the government was absent in the text.
    Meanwhile, the statement that made the core idea of the text was not
    uttered during the speech. The text held that they welcomed the
    Armenian parliamentary elections and congratulate the Armenian people
    on a more successful election over the previous elections. These
    elections appeared to be progress towards international standards, but
    they continue to scrutinize the investigation into reported wrongdoing.
    According to the text, the MCC board will make a decision on
    eligibility of Armenia as well as all the other countries participating
    in the MCC in December.
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