Wednesday, April 22 2020 13:17
Alina Hovhannisyan

Armenian postal service returned to the state

Armenian postal service returned to the state

ArmInfo. The management of the National Postal Operator of Armenia Haypost CJSC (Armpost), passed to the state represented by the Ministry of High Technology Industry of the Republic of Armenia.

As the Minister of High-Tech Industry Hakob Arshakyan said on his  Facebook page, <The Ministry of High-Tech Industry considers HayPost  as a structure of strategic importance, and in the future we expect  the new leadership to implement a long-term development strategy for  the postal service based on the principles of focus on customer >,  Arshakyan wrote.

He said that Hayk Karapetyan was appointed to the post of Acting  Director of "Haypost". He worked in the telecommunications sector for  more than 10 years in a number of international companies, in  particular, since 2016 Karapetyan held the position of commercial  director at <VEON Armenia> (TM Beeline).

To recall, yesterday a meeting was held, chaired by the Prime  Minister of the Republic of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, during which  the head of government instructed in the near future to present  specific options for choosing the management model of the Haypost  National Postal Service Operator.

It should be noted that earlier the post's concessionaire was a  company affiliated with structures of Argentinean billionaire of  Armenian origin Eduardo Eurnekian, "Haypost Trust Management".  Eurnekian owns a controlling stake in Armenian Converse Bank, a  number of other large commercial structures, is a concessionaire for  Yerevan Zvartnots airport and Gyumri Shirak airport.