Russia Has Not Met All Conditions Determined at Receiving Armenian Enterprises

PanARMENIAN.Net - «I consider that up to now Russia has not fulfilled all conditions, based on which the Armenian enterprises were conveyed to it within the framework of the Property for Debt Agreement,» said Co-Chair of the Armenian-Russian Inter-Governmental Commission for Economic Cooperation, Russian Minister of Transport Igor Levitin. The Minister stated it when answering the question on fulfillment of obligations to run the enterprises Armenia had conveyed to Russia within the framework of the Property for Debt Agreement. In his words, Russia has not determined yet whether to produce military or civil destination output at these enterprises. "Thus, we agreed to create a working group over launching these enterprises," Levitin said. He informed that "yesterday and today the working group held its first meetings and they have also reached a specific plan of measures over production types." He hoped for the group to report to the co-chairs on the type of the production in the course of the next meeting. «Russia understands its responsibility for these enterprises, we were to organize their functioning and it is one of the points Russia has not fulfilled yet,» I. Levitin said. The protocol of the working group first session titled «For securing efficient work of enterprises Armenia conveyed to Russia» is available, he also reported. «The first document is signed today,» he reported. Answering the question whether the enterprises will produce military items, Levitin said «when assuming ownership of these enterprises we did not plan to launch works on producing military destination goods there.» At the same time he noted that the enterprises are property of the Russian Federation, «thus a question like that will not prevent production of these goods.»