Yerevan /Mediamax/. Increase of prices for petrol in Armenia in the course of the recent days is conditioned by the analogous process in the world market.

Mediamax reports that Chairman of State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition Ashot Shahnazaryan said this in Yerevan today.

“We have turned to two petrol importers, dominating in our market, for explanations, and simultaneously studied the situation in the European market, where in the course of the recent 10-15 days the price for a gallon increased for $0.8”, Shahnazaryan stated. According to him, in the nearest future the commission, headed by him, will make a statement on economic justification of the price increase.