FORUM TO DISCUSS GYUMRI DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

ArmenPress
Nov 11 2004

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 11, ARMENPRESS: The Academy for Educational
Development (AED) and the Shirak Competitiveness Center will organize
a three-day forum in Gyumri that will discuss drafting of the city’s
economy development strategy. The forum, organized with the financial
assistance of USAID, will start on November 15.

Government and parliament officials, representatives of donor
organizations, businessmen are invited to attend it. The forum’s
participants are expected to specify the components of the town’s
development plan and to outline its development concept up to 2020.

Gyumri has both industrial and tourism potentials. It has an airport
and a railway station and used to function under the Soviets as a
crucial transport juncture.