Nairit employees promised salary refund November 26, 2012 - 13:41 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Nairit chemical plant employees gathered outside presidential residence to demand a refund of salaries and a plant relaunch. Following a meeting with a representative of presidential stuff, the protesters were promised a possible salary refund for 3 months, a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter on the ground said. Assurances were further given that the relaunch issue will be resolved by December 20. However, as a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter learnt from protesters, the latters were skeptical as to promises heard. As they noted, salaries for November 2011 were paid to them in September 2012. Minister of Energy Armen Movsisyan has also met with Nairit delegation, giving similar promises. As the plant employees stressed, they’ll stop at nothing to defend their rights. Top stories David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says. Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. U.S. believes peace is “possible” in South Caucasus The United States continues to believe that peace is possible in the South Caucasus, Vedant Patel said. |