Monday, October 24 2016 12:09

ArmInfo. "The government of Armenia is subsidizing farmers to the extent that it has the opportunity. Tomorrow as we grow richer and stronger, the amount of subsidy will be higher, indeed. And here, we must help each other to avoid illusions. We need to be more realistic," 

Prime Minister of Armenia Karen Karapetyan said in an interview with  Armenian TV channels.

The prime minister compared the country's budget with a family budget  sayng: "When you manage your house, when your budget is limited, you  decide what the correct priority is. When you do not live by your  budget, you risk facing problems. The same is with us. What is the  use of complaining about our meager resources? We have to go step by  step toward a greater budget and our opportunities to grow the next  day we will actually be able to subsidize agriculture more and more."

Asked how he feels about the responsibility towards ordinary citizen  who may believe in his government, Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan  said: "We do not cherish any illusions in this regard, which makes us  shoulder up more responsibility. We have tried to be, let me say that  word again, maximum pragmatic in our program, and have specified our  steps in the most rational manner."

For example, he said, many say that the government program seems to  be kind of a toast and promises. 

"Frankly speaking, I do not see any promise there, apart from the  fact that we say that we will work in this or that direction. We have  tried to specify the maximum in possible terms, and I see it, we have  put quite a lot of weight, which requires regular daily work. As we  have said, if we live up to the task, we will have changes.  Time  will tell how we will measure the changes. We said that we must  analyze the terms, diagnostics and statistical data in order to  understand the amount of responsibility assumed.  We are set to be  very honest and sincere in our work with the public, and we shall  explain why this or that did not happen. For this very reason,  realizing that after six, seven months the time will come to report  back the achievements, we have attempted to set out as clearly as  possible what can be done.  But the fact is that there are some  members of our team, who said the bar is too high: we had better  state less so that after six, seven months we could say, "We have  exceeded the benchmark. Otherwise we could set the bar at a  motivating height. We have chosen the second option. Six, seven  months after the issuance of the report, we will see to what extent  we have been able to do it or not," Karapetyan said.  According to  Karapetyan, one of the government's prior tasks is to fight  monopolies through creating equal and fair conditions. As for the  tools, he said, the government will use the ones stipulated by law.   "Injustice is the main reason behind social discontent in the family,  business, city, street, country and so on.  In this regard, I believe  that our nation is on the watch, has a good sense and ability to  rebel against injustice.  A small market will sooner or later lead to  monopolies in certain sectors. We may have dominant businessmen in  specific areas, because he or she works more effectively, etc and so  on. The problem is how they become dominant. If administrative  leverages are being used, for example, Aram is allowed, you not, then  we will face injustice.  If natural competitive field, one will  interpret it so that it is not dominant, the state has a problem in  that case.  dominant, our Antimonopoly Service restrain his appetite,  but we must be the dominant, if he became a fairly competitive field,  suppress it, of course not," the prime minister said.  In this light,  the prime minister said that anyone can today import products without  any problem. "Any time you learn that there is a problem, you call me  personally," the prime minister said.