They won’t deny, but will they give?
About one month and a half ago the former foreign affairs minister Vardan Oskanyan stated that Armenia was holding negotiations with the Russian government to receive a one-billion loan from the latter. Back then, the minister of finances Vardan Aramyan didn’t deny that by saying that the government had always been searching loans from various countries. The well-informed sources have found out that in fact Armenia is trying to receive not one but two billion USD from Russia and the negotiations were pending. Yesterday the minister if finances Aramyan neither denied nor admitted this rumor while interviewed by out reporter and once again reiterated that the government had always been looking for foreign monetary sources with low interest rates to suffice the deficit of the budget. Let’s note that according to our information certain controversy has been formed within the Armenian government in regard of the expected high-scale loan from Russia. In particular, our sources claim that Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan is personally against this idea because according to him by doing so it will become much harder to turn doing the suggestion of Russia to join the Eurasia Union. According to the same sources, President Serzh Sargsyan is for the Russian loan assuming that in light of the upcoming presidential elections the speeding of this loan will incrementally ease the public discontent.
