There was a discussion on "property for debt". I personally discussed the case of the "Mars" factory with the Prime Minister of Russia. Pashinyan
In 2002, under the "Property for Debt" operation, we gave our 5 largest strategic assets to the Russian Federation for 93 million dollars, of which the current valuation of the Hrazdan thermal power plant alone is more than 1 billion dollars. Can we turn to the Russian Federation, pay the debt and get these capabilities back, especially since these capabilities have brought huge profits to the Russian Federation over the years? Today, on April 10, during the discussion of the report on the progress and results of the implementation of the RA Government's plan for 2023 in the National Assembly, Deputy of the "Civil Agreement" faction, Sergey Bagratyan, inquired about this from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Nikol Pashinyan replied: "We have discussed the subject of these facilities and our request and appeal has not been [that] we want to take back, but to invest, because the potential of these capacities is essentially untapped. And we have discussed this issue with the Russian Government," Pashinyan said.
Sergey Bagratyan noticed that in the case of the "Mars" factory, there are the best conditions for developing the IT sector, he even offered to cooperate with the Russian Federation, so that, for example, the factory would be given back under the condition of use.
"It is desirable that these capacities do not remain in the phase of inefficient use. It used to have more than 7,000 employees, now we have put it to rest," said Bagratyan, noting that it would be nice to be able to take it and use it.
Pashinyan informed that the issue was discussed. "We have discussed the case of the Mars factory." I personally discussed this issue with the head of the Russian Government, and those very same emphasis that these are areas of enormous industrial importance, and today perhaps only a small percentage of them are occupied in any way. Therefore, yes, you are right, that power must be employed to serve economic development."
