Live stimulus of migration

16/07/2011

The estimations that the government stimulates emigration are exaggerated even after the announcement of the prime-minister. Even more, this topic should be discussed at in a different context to answer questions whether it is done on purpose or is a result of failed policy. We will have the answers to all questions only in that case. Otherwise it is difficult to understand the activities of the government and its members separately. For example, several days ago the agriculture minister Sergo Karapetyan visited Yeghegnut community of Lori region. The problem is not the fact that this minister with his reputation is a stimulus of emigration. The problem is that the minister behaved him in a manner that the villagers simply asked him to go out of their village. Specifically, the minister answered to the complaints of villagers that the ministry does not do anything and even does not provide agricultural facilities very rudely, which made the villagers even more angry. Witnesses say that instead of answering the questions of villagers the minister told them the following: “You are playing the cards and backgammon instead of working, why don’t you go to the field to work?” His words made the villagers angry and one of them said to the minister, “you, fellow, don’t speak like that in our village!” As the minister saw that his behavior as a chief in the village had the opposite results he said, “I am a human being, I can get angry too” (as Tigran Sargsyan said to our newspaper later, he had made a joke). On the other hand, we can understand the minister because after becoming minister he hoped that by doing some religious rituals to have good harvest people will take him as a good minister. However, life shows that his work in the minister’s office is complicating the situation in agriculture more. People are emigrating not with families, but with villages already.