2005 TO BE A BUSY YEAR FOR RA MINISTRY OF URBAN CONSTRUCTION
YEREVAN, December 30 (Noyan Tapan). 2005 will be a busy year for RA
Ministry of Urban Construction. Aram Haroutiunian, RA Minister of
Urban Construction, said during the December 30 press conference that
there are serious problems in the sphere and intensive work is
necessary for their solution. In particular, 4b drams (about $8m) was
allocated to the apartment construction by 2005 state budget. Work in
the amount of nearly 1b drams will be implemented in Gyumri and a
number of rural areas and 1.3b drams will be aimed at solution of
refugees’ problems connected with apartments. The Minister also said
that a memorandum on cooperation in the sphere of urban construction
has been signed with Russia lately. The memorandum envisages to
restore and reconstruct a number of buildings in Gyumri. The
preliminary cost of this program is 2b drams. In 2005 the second stage
of anti-landslide program, stuty of landslide areas, implemented with
Japan’s assistance will be also carried out. It was mentioned that
thier inventory was made during the first stage of the
program. According to the Minister, the cost of the anti-landslide
program is $2m.