March 23, 2001 - 19:59 AMT
THE REAL PRICE OF THE NETWORKS IS 470 MILLION DOLLARS, ARMENIAN MP SAYS
YEREVAN, March 23. /Mediamax/. The expected price of the sale of the Armenian power networks is pretty much understated, deputy of the parliament Arshak Sadoyan said today a press-conference in Yerevan.
He asserts that the real price of the 4 distributive power networks, put forward for the tender, makes 470 million dollars, while the government names that price 220 million. Sadoyan also declared that the potential purchasers are ready to pay only about 40 million dollars.
Speaking against the privatization of the networks, Arshak Sadoyan called on the Government of Armenia to take Georgia's experience into account. According to him, the privatization of the power networks in that country brought to the crisis of the system.
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