YEREVAN. - Medicines in Georgia are still significantly cheaper than in Armenia, MP Edmon Marukyan said in the parliament today at the discussion of the work of State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition (SCPEC) of Armenia in 2015.

According to him, the people - especially those from the northern provinces of Armenia bordering with Georgia - go to Tbilisi to buy expensive drugs. 

“I can’t understand: If a multinational corporation supplies medicines to Armenia and neighboring Georgia, this means that the prices must be either the same or almost the same. However, the difference is quite big,” Marukyan said.

Responding to Marukyan, SCPEC Chairman Artak Shaboyan noted that the research of the Committee doesn’t conform the MP’s observation. Perhaps there is a difference in price of several types of medicines, but this is not of mass proportions.

“Nevertheless, if such data are available, please present them. We are ready to consider those,” Shaboyan said.