YEREVAN. - Armenia has no monopolies from legal viewpoint, Deputy Speaker of Armenian National Assembly (NA) Eduard Sharmazamov, who is also the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Spokesman, said after the RPA Executive Body meeting Wednesday. According to him, equal conditions are provided at least on the paper.

“There is no monopoly from legal viewpoint. But actually I’m not a specialist and I’m not the official who should speak about that,” he said.

In Sharmazanov’s words, the economic reforms have been launched by the government not now, but since February 12, when the President gave precise vision which Armenia should strive to. "The Government is carrying out the steps which have been presented by the president’s instruction,”he said.

To the question as to how can the authorities fight against monopolists, who are linked to those very authorities, Sharmazanov said that more competent persons have given more exhausting answers on that issue. “There was corruption, and the struggle against it was carried out. [But] It’s not me who should give assessments about the quality of the struggle: there is a society and experts [for this purpose]. Finally there are elections and the society itself decides whether to believe or not,” he noted.