As Iravaban.net had informed, on 8 September, the Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan participated in the session of the Eurasian Economic Union’s Intergovernmental Council in Grodno, Belarus. Mr. Vache Gabrielyan, RA Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Economic Integration and Reforms; Mr. Suren Karayan, Deputy Minister and Mr. Shavarsh Kocharyan, RA deputy Minister of Foreign affairs were in the delegation.
In order to carry out this visit, the RA Government Staff signed a contract with the Georgian Airways on 4 September, for the flight in the direction Yerevan Grodno on 7 September and Grodno Yerevan, on 8 September. The cost of the Georgian special flight services totaled to 24 thousand Euros (13.1 million AMD).
The RA Government Staff has provided clarification about the purchase informing that the service provided by the contract was urgent; the contract was signed in Russian language and in other currency, taking into account certain features of the Georgian Airline Company, and as a result it was not possible to observe certain requirements of the RA Law on Procurement.
However, Davit Beglaryan also assured that the discrepancy has not led to changes of the procurement procedures or changes of its result, as well as to violation of the interests of participants of the procurement.
