YEREVAN. – If ticket prices for public transportation go up, Transport Ministrը will do everything to minimize price increase.

Talking to reporters during inauguration ]of new mayor, Transport Minister Gagik Beglaryan assured he would try to minimize price increase.

Asked whether he was present at the concert of world-famous soprano Montserrat Caballé, Beglaryan said he was absent from the country.

To note, Gagik Beglaryan had to resign from his post of Yerevan Mayor amid scandal connected over Placido Domingo’s concert. Beglaryan got angry when his wife was offered to change her seat and hit in the face Aram Kandayan, an employee of the president’s protocol office.