Recently RA prime minister Andranik Margaryan and president’s advisor Garnik Isagulyan said that businesses always tend to be close to the government and it is very difficult for them to survive in the oppositional field. But head of the SIL concern, MP Khachatour Sukiasyan denied this and said, “I don’t know what Isagulyan and the prime minister say, but I know only one thing: everyone who does something bad for the state must be subjected to extreme criticism both by citizens, MPs and everyone in our country, and it doesn’t depend on who that person is”. According to Mr. Sukiasyan it is possible to do business in Armenia without being under the cover of the government. “What does it mean to be out of the cover of the government? Armenia has a legal field and laws, you can take that law and start your business, but the fact that your competitors may have privileges and will act in another way, is another issue. There are dark approaches to this issue, but generally I think that there are more people who work according to the law than those that escape the law by different means”, says Mr. Sukiasyan.
In regard to the USD exchange rate changes, Mr. Sukiasyan said that this tendency has both negative and positive influence, of course if this change occurs in a short period only.