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Kajaran governor back to ruling party to endorse president
tert.am
19:51 - 27.01.13
The governor of Kajaran (Syunik region) has resumed his membership in
the ruling Republican Party of Armenia after around a year's interval
to endorse Serzh Sargsyan in the upcoming presidential polls.
Together with his community members, Rafik Atayan extends support to
the incumbent president who banned the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum
plant from exploiting the village's lands for mining purposes.
`Yes, I had withdrawn from the party, but they said no one is going to
harm the village, so I am back. It isn't as though the president had
said `I stand behind your backs as a mountain', so we stand by him. I
have always pinned great hopes on my president,' the governor told
Tert.am.
The president's earlier decision to hand over the Kajaran lands to the
Copper Molybdenum Plant had sparked a wide discontent in the village.
Yielding to the protests, Sargsyan later issued a decree for not
implanting the decision.
Atayan, who recently attended Sargsyan's campaign meeting in Kajaran
said his village has no other expectations from the president.
He denied the subsequent media reports that the Kajaran residents
asked the president to develop mining industries in the village.
The Kajaran governor said their population is unlikely to draw
benefits from mining. `We'd better breed our cattle,' he explained.
Commenting on the reports that Syunik Governor Surik Khachatryan has
signed a bilateral economic cooperation agreement with his counterpart
of Iran's East Azserbaijan province (over the rent of a pasture for
5,000 cows in return for Iran's Iran's agricultural equipment and
fertilizers), Atayan said he isn't aware of such a deal and ruled out
the possibility of such a practice in his village.
tert.am
19:51 - 27.01.13
The governor of Kajaran (Syunik region) has resumed his membership in
the ruling Republican Party of Armenia after around a year's interval
to endorse Serzh Sargsyan in the upcoming presidential polls.
Together with his community members, Rafik Atayan extends support to
the incumbent president who banned the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum
plant from exploiting the village's lands for mining purposes.
`Yes, I had withdrawn from the party, but they said no one is going to
harm the village, so I am back. It isn't as though the president had
said `I stand behind your backs as a mountain', so we stand by him. I
have always pinned great hopes on my president,' the governor told
Tert.am.
The president's earlier decision to hand over the Kajaran lands to the
Copper Molybdenum Plant had sparked a wide discontent in the village.
Yielding to the protests, Sargsyan later issued a decree for not
implanting the decision.
Atayan, who recently attended Sargsyan's campaign meeting in Kajaran
said his village has no other expectations from the president.
He denied the subsequent media reports that the Kajaran residents
asked the president to develop mining industries in the village.
The Kajaran governor said their population is unlikely to draw
benefits from mining. `We'd better breed our cattle,' he explained.
Commenting on the reports that Syunik Governor Surik Khachatryan has
signed a bilateral economic cooperation agreement with his counterpart
of Iran's East Azserbaijan province (over the rent of a pasture for
5,000 cows in return for Iran's Iran's agricultural equipment and
fertilizers), Atayan said he isn't aware of such a deal and ruled out
the possibility of such a practice in his village.