The government is doing the right thing by using loans for road construction. It’s just that it has to give preference to roads that are overcrowded. This is what second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan told economic reporters today.

Asked how he would assess the fact that the government has made slaughter of animals at a slaughterhouse mandatory and that many villagers are complaining, Kocharyan said the following: “The government needs to subsidize certain expenses. It has to assume the function, organize and make the slaughterhouses work and privatize them in two years. If you prohibit something and make people do what you want them to do, you have to make most of the expenses.

I would solve this issue differently. I would simply set up small slaughterhouses in all big villages through a state program. This would become community ownership for a village or perhaps the nearby villages, and villagers would reach agreements with each other. If the government doesn’t do this, who will? This is a very understandable option, but the government doesn’t talk to the people involved in the sector. Armenia’s government officials think they know everything.”