My Step faction MPs, Lena Nazaryan, Varazdat Karapetyan and Mary Galstyan, propose amendments to the law on subsurface resources, as a result of which the government will prohibit the provision of new mining permits until December 31, 2021, Zhamanak daily reported.

“The changes also suggest the law covers companies that do not have a document on environmental impacts or that it has lost force,” the source noted. “This means that if by that time the document provided to Lydian Armenia was declared invalid, the topic of developing the Amulsar field would be delayed for at least two years.”