YEREVAN. – The positive side of the year 2015 was that the socioeconomic situation in Armenia did not become worse than it already was.

Ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP—and businessman—Hakob Hakobyan told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am, as he summed up the year that passed. 

In his words, the situation in the country could have been even worse.

“But thanks to the diligence of  our nation, the ‘bad’ lessened,” Hakobyan added. “I believe the year 2016 will be like this, too.

“Of course, we need to consider the external developments, especially the [strained] Russia-Turkey relations [after Turkey’s downing a Russian warplane]. Our [i.e. Armenia’s] good and bad economic situation depends on this.”

In the RPA MP’s words,  the “good” will start when the Russian ruble stabilizes.

“If not, we need to think about other ‘roads,’” the businessman MP added. “The situation is unpredictable, [and] it depends on international developments. Let’s not seek guilty amongst ourselves; it doesn’t depend on us.”