YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 4, ARMENPRESS. Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Avinyan says his only interest over the Amulsar Project is the protection of the state interest.

Asked what is his interest regarding the operation or non-operation of the Amulsar gold mine, the deputy PM told reporters: “I personally have one interest, that is the protection and preservation of the state interest, I don’t have any other interest”.

Asked whether there is a compulsion for the operation of the mine, he said the only compulsion is that Armenia should be a legal state and a country of law.

In response to the question whether he is interested in the environmental prospect of the operation of the mine, Avinyan assured that he is concerned with the environmental problems of operations of all mines in general, and this issue is not an exception.

Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan