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Zaruhi Postanjyan, NA deputy and the member of the permanent committee on the state-legal affairs has sent a written request to the Government and the Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan for getting in formation about Teghut mining exploitation, said Postanjyan who took part in “SOS Teghut” bicycle campaign in 9-11 May.

”There we have presented information about the loss of natural resources in the case of the mining exploitation, as well as about the destruction and pollution of ecological system,” said the deputy. According to her they have sent ten questions to the Government on what steps the RA Government takes to examine the resources of molybdenum and other unique metals, how much the revenues to the state budget will form, who the 81% owner of Teghut mining is regarding that Russian citizen Valeri Mejlumyan owns only 19%. Postanjyan considers it quite possible that 81% belongs to an Armenian official.

According to Zaruhi Postanjyan the state budget will not have much profit from that business as only foreign investors will get use of it. “If we not stop Teghut exploitation, in the future we just can’t live in Armenia,” she said and added that if the exploitation starts we’ll become an old mannered country where the workers get 40.000 drams for working in According to Postanjyan the Prime Minister also said that “we should work through legal aspect to act against the implementation of it.”