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YEREVAN. – Numerous current and former employees of the Nairit chemical plant, in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan, on Monday assembled outside the Government Building, and they are demanding the immediate transfer of the still-unpaid wage arrears of another 600 plant workers, and that the plant resumes operations. 

Nairit former employee Anahit Manukyan told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“The restart of the plant is not only a new job opportunity, but a way to enrich Armenia,” added Manukyan. “We will continue the fight even after the transfer of our salaries, and demand restart of the plant.”

Nairit former Press Secretary Anush Harutyunyan, for her part, noted that the payment of plant workers’ due salaries had a positive significance for the current Armenian government, since Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan was able to solve the problem created by his predecessor Tigran Sargsyan, who is currently Armenia’s Ambassador to the United States.

“We are gathered [outside the Government Building] today to rather congratulate each other, and to stand with the Nairit [workers] who have not yet received their salaries.”

The aforesaid wage arrears will be paid by the state, and on the account of the profits of state-run energy companies.

A total of 1,800 from the 2,400 Nairit employees have already received their unpaid salaries, and the remaining 600 employees’ wages were promised to be transferred on Monday.

The plant workers have assembled outside the Government Building and the Office of the President numerous times, and demanded a solution to their salary-related problems.

The Nairit chemical plant does not operate since April 2010.

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