THERE IS LACK OF BUILDERS IN ARMENIA

YEREVAN, August 9 (Noyan Tapan). It’s the second year when the
Builder’s Day is marked in the newly-independent Armenia. At the
reception organized on August 7 Aram Haroutiunian, RA Minister of
Urban Construction, congratulated the builders on occasion of their
professional holiday. The congratulatorly addresses of RA President,
RA NA Chairman and Prime Minister were read.

A.Haroutiunian said that with the state resources amounting to 12b
drams allocated this year work in the sphere of construction of
schools, residential houses and other spheres will be done. It was
also mentioned that construction is carried out in the republic at the
expense of private investments: investments amounting to about $100m
have already been made. Lack of builders is felt in the republic in
the recent years in consequence of the growth of the volumes of
construction and old age of the builders’ staff. It’s planned to work
out a program of training of young builders for the purpose of
overcoming this problem. According to the Minister, during his recent
working visit to Moscow the problems of the sphere of construction
were discussed, a memorandum on cooperation was signed with Viktor
Khristenko, RF Minister of Power-Engineering and Industry. The sides
also achieved preliminary agreement about holding of a meeting of the
heads of construction sphere of CIS in Yerevan, during which issues of
cooperation and investments will be discussed.