Businessman: One should have $25,000 every month otherwise Armenia will become hell (video)
Mr. Avedis Daldalian, who moved to Armenia from Germany four years ago, is participating in the 6th Pan-Armenian Armenia-Diaspora Conference in Yerevan. "Armenia is like a heaven,” Mr. Daldalian said today when summing up the activity of the conference. However, he adds that ‘it is important to have 25,000 dollars in one’s hands every month.’ Mr. Daldalian’s children and grandchildren live in Germany. One of his grandchildren cooperates with Borussia Dortmund and Cologne. He is alone in Armenia. “I have a motel which is enough for me, $500 000 is enough for me," Avedis Daldalian says. Mr. Daldalian is aware that a lot of Armenians are forced to flee their country in search of better living conditions. The reason is clear to him. He believes that the guilty ones for the current situation are those people themselves, since they should acknowledge that the thing to be used in practice is their brain, not the arm. “They have been stupid since childhood, so this is a hell, I am saying this openly.” This Israeli-born Armenian businessman knows some intellectuals in Armenia who used their brains rather than arms. One of them is [influential businessman] Gagik Tsarukyan, “He works, that is how he makes money, he cannot do otherwise.” Zaven Khanjian, Executive Director/CEO at Armenian Missionary Association of America who grew up under the influence of the Armenian Evangelical Church, does not believe that a person, living in a country where corruption is on a high level , can achieve success with his/her brain. There is lack of justice in Armenia, he says. “When an individual is subject to corrupt practices, we must be prepared to fight for him." Mr. Khanjian is aware that people are fleeing Armenia, he is aware that the authorities in the country do not change through elections. “Let us hope for changes next April.” Journalists informed Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan of the complaints that Diaspora Armenians voiced about poor living conditions in Armenia. “I do not think that the words expressed by two or three people should become a formula for others,” she said adding that Diaspora Armenians should have no reasons to complain of social and economic conditions in Armenia. The minister assured the journalists that there are many Armenians from the Diaspora 'who are investing instead of complaining.'
