This means that such wheat is also needed for the Republic of Armenia. This was stated today in the National Assembly of Armenia by Deputy Minister of Economy Edgar Zakaryan, responding to reporters’ question about why 4th-grade wheat was brought to Armenia from Kazakhstan via Azerbaijan by railway.

Commenting on the remark that the Ministry of Economy of Armenia initially did not specify what kind of wheat it was, and that what arrived was feed grain, the deputy minister of economy said: “It was said that wheat is coming, it was not noted what kind of wheat. Did they say that a different wheat was coming, but another wheat arrived? They only said that wheat is coming. And isn’t that wheat wheat? The animal that eats [it], doesn’t it then give us something — milk or meat?

But why should it have been noted in advance what quality wheat it is?

In general, if the routes are being diversified, that is good. Now, today feed grain has arrived, and tomorrow high-quality wheat will come, life will show that. But it is clear, isn’t it, that if the routes are being diversified, it means that the state is opening up, and that is good. There may be a discount, there may be different things.

What do you think? Is the wheat that has come unnecessary, it simply has come?”

Regarding whether the same fuss would have been made if it had been announced in advance that feed grain was coming to Armenia, the deputy minister of economy responded: “The fuss was made about diversification, I don’t know by whom, but not by the government, and the diversification that has taken place continues; it is good.

From the beginning, everyone was saying there is no problem with bread, we have not been, we will not be hungry, but the diversification of routes is an important thing.”

Edgar Zakaryan emphasized that the wheat coming from Russia is already normal wheat.