YEREVAN. - It is necessary to discuss the idea of community participation in organizing the work of taxi.

First Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Development of Armenia, Vache Terteryan, stated the aforementioned in the National Assembly (NA) on Monday, introducing the new bill “On local duties and payments.”

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Responding to the question of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP Sukias Avetisyan, he noted that the recent protests of taxi drivers must make the local authorities take a thought.

“The communities must also take part in organizing their work. It’s another thing that then it will be necessary to regulate how taxi can work from one city in another,” he stressed.

The protests of taxi drivers (including the one in late November) were caused by too high duties.