GEORGIA’S FIRST LADY MEETS WITH STUDENTS OF YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY
YEREVAN, December 3 (Noyan Tapan). On December 3, Georgia’s first lady
Sandra Elizabeth Rulovs who is in Armenia on a 4-day visit had a
meeting with the students of Yerevan State University. Answering the
students’ questions, the first lady and officials accompanying her
noted that a 270-km road will be built and economic programs
imlemented in Javakhk. As regards her husband, Georgia’s President
Mikhail Sahakashvili’s promises to fight corruption and implement
refoms in the political sphere, Mrs. Rulovs stated this will be done
gradually, in particular programs are already being implemented in the
spheres of health care and education. During the meeting it was also
mentioned that this year a centralized system of entrance examinations
was introduced at Tbilisi State University, whereas this system has
been used at Yerevan State University for 13 years. NT corresdpondent
was told all these details by a student present at the meeting since
the journalists accredited to cover the meeting were deprived of an
opportunity to attend it because of the university vice rector
Shahazizian’s inhospitality. He complained the place was “too
crowded”, as a result of which the reporters were asked out and had no
chance to do their job.