YEREVAN. – A total of 1,700 employees of the “Nairit Plant” Closed Joint-Stock Company—of Armenia’s capital city Yerevan—were formally discharged on Friday.

“The company’s scarce, highly qualified specialists, who have had their undeniable contribution to the production process of the plant for years on end, have been dismissed.

“[But] the Company trade union (…) is full of hope that the plant will be reactivated, nonetheless, and all the specialists will come back to work.

“As for the repayment of the salary debt, we assure [you] that we will fight together with you to solve the debt problem as soon as possible,” the “Nairit Plant” Closed Joint-Stock Company Trade Union Committee statement reads, in particular.

As reported earlier, the eighteen months of unpaid wages of the employees of Nairit chemical rubber plant, which no longer operates, total Armenian drams equivalent to approximately $15 million. The workers have assembled outside the Government Building and the Office of the President numerous times and demanded a solution to their problems, but to no avail, so far.