THERE WILL BE MASS MEETING IN APRIL BECAUSE OF GAS PRICES
Support A1+!6 non-governmental organizations dealing with the protection of consumers’ rights created the Public Protectors’ Union (PPU) which is going to arouse a revolt because of the increase of gas price.
The leader of the Union Aram Grigoryan claims that the increase is not warranted and according to the decision of the Committee Regulating the Social Services (CRSS) the increase is not fair. During the today’s press conference the PPU leaders declared that CRSS made a quick decision without any economical grounds and public awareness. The public protectors who organized the press conference, had nothing to tell the society either, except the bold announcement about “organizing meetings in April” which was prompted by the journalists.
PPU member Abgar Eghoyan said, “We did not have such a question on our agenda, to tell the truth, the idea of organizing such actions was given to us by the media.” PPU had no any economic calculations to argue the grounds of the gas price increase by 31 drams. The executive director of the Company Aram Grigoryan said that it is not their task to make calculations, their task is to raise public awareness about the fact that CRSS discussed the claim of ArmRusGasArd and made a decision breaking the law. He claims that the committee had 3 days’ time to make a decision starting from the day of receiving the case and it couldn’t make a complicated economic analysis within the given short period.
The company director promised to organize a round table at the end of the month on the issue of the gas price increase having the calculations of the experts in his hands. The Government and the company "ArmRusGasArd" are to participate in the discussion. Aram Grigoryan says that they don’t care about their nonparticipation.
It is worth mentioning that PPU organized a meeting on March 1 on the issues of investments in the gas-energy sphere and gasification, and none of the 4 invited representatives ofArmRusGasArd came.
