says, NA Speaker Artur Baghdasaryan
- Mr. Baghdasaryan, how do you evaluate the night decision of the coalition council on the indexation of the deposit revising? In fact, won’t there be a discussion of the bills on deposit return in NA?
- Eventually, the goal of the draft law “On Restoring of RA citizens’ savings deposits and Guarantees of Protection” is the compensation of the deposits, which should be envisaged in the law “On Budget,” as it was fixed in the presented draft law. By the way, all the countries, where the deposits were compensated, have been mandatory carried out through the law “On Budget.” According to the decision made by the coalition council lasted about 6 hours and finished at 2a.m., not only the draft articles will be included in the law “On Budget,” but also the amount of the compensation will be clearly defined also by law, and the categories, which will be given compensation of the deposits by the order of priority. In the sense of legality, if everything happens, we’ll unite our draft law with the draft law “On Budget” by the prescribed order of NA Rules of Procedure. Meanwhile, I would like to mention that due to the unique political agreement in Armenia rather high compensation will be made: 90.000 drams to 1000, more than 200 USD, which is the second index in the world after Lithuania, where 250 USD was paid.
I would like also to mention that within the framework of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, the depositors will get compensation by the following priority: the 70 year-old citizens and over 70, lonely old people, the retired people, the handicapped of the 1st , 2nd , 3rd group, the victims of the disaster zone, the families of the deceased and wounded freedom fighters, the residents of the borderline zone suffered because of bombings, etc. Moreover, at the sitting of the coalition it was decided that next year the money of the deposit compensations can’t be less than 1bln drams in the budget. I would like also to affirm that while presenting the draft budget, the Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan stated about all this, saying clearly that the continuation will be guaranteed by the medium-term expenditure program, about which will be written in the law “On Budget.” I say all this especially to all those, who fear that the payments will be one-time. So, the problem of the deposit compensations will be completely solved. Taking the advantage, I would like also to give my thanks to all those political forces, MPs, mass media, due to whose joint work the fair solution of this issue became possible.
Margarit Yesayan