ArmInfo. "I see problems for Armenia rather in the economic sphere," the second Armenian President Robert Kocharian said in an interview with RIA.
According to him, with the fundamental economic indicators of Armenia do not inspire much optimism. "This is a bad demography, problems with neighbors, logistics are not good at all, and people have very high expectations in connection with revolutionary euphoria. From where and where are the growth points that can satisfy these expectations, I don't quite understand. I'm good enough I know the economy of Armenia, and if they are incomprehensible to me, then I think they are incomprehensible to the current authorities. The investment climate has become much worse. The authorities explain this by uncertainty about the parliamentary situation. I don't think this is the reason, "Kocharyan said, stressing that the volume of foreign investment has almost halved.
In his opinion, this is primarily due to the lack of economic policy. "Nobody knows how the authorities will continue to behave, including the government itself. This is also due to the fact that all law enforcement agencies - the police, the National Security Service - began to engage in business. These are mask shows - constant inspections, unexpected arrests of businessmen and the arrests are accompanied by direct agitprop accusations, when the presumption of innocence is simply destroyed as the most important element of the rule of law. A person is appointed guilty without a trial, and God knows what will happen next. A person needs to be laundered before the society on completely unproved accusations. Every businessman thinks he may be in this situation. This is an extremely unpleasant business environment for people. Now external investors do not know who will be arrested as follows. This carries risks of both business and reputation. Here there is talk of transitional justice and by this they understand the possibility of redistribution of property. This means that the country will be a thing of the past, not the future, and for many years. It's just the destruction of any prospects for partnerships, "the second president stressed. According to him, to solve these problems, an integrated approach is needed." In particular, it is necessary to abandon political vendettas and understand that economic inertia is always very strong and any careless step - these are problems not for months, but for years. And we must understand that money is probably the most fearful animal, they love peace and quiet. If there is no understanding that a business needs predictability, a formulated policy to conform to practice, then we will not have a business environment for success in the economy, "he concluded.