DISCUSSIONS OF PROSPECTS OF ARMENIA’S DEVELOPMENT TO BE HELD IN
YEREVAN ON SEPTEMBER 3, 2005

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Sept 2 2005

YEREVAN, September 2. /ARKA/. Discussions of the prospects of
Armenia’s development will be held in Yerevan on September 3, 2005,
the International Center for Human Development (ICHD) reported ARKA
News Agency. The discussion will be held in 25 different groups
simultaneously, and about 500 people are expected to participate
in these discussions. The goal of this event is to discuss possible
models of Armenia’s development, which were elaborated by “Armenia
2020” Program. The discussions will be held in two stages, where four
scenarios of Armenia’s development for 2005-2020 will be presented.
These scenarios are: “From Russia with Love”, “Armenia and the
European Union”, “From Being to Prosperity”, “Armenia: Sentenced to
30 Years with Correspondence”. This will be the fourth discussion
organized by Armenia 2020. The same discussions were held in Yerevan,
Ijevan and Yeghegnadzor. This round of discussions is organized by
the ICHD and is ordered and supported by Armenia 2020. Armenia 2020
program started in February, 2002 and its goal is to make Armenia
a competitive country, as well as to support strategic development
of Armenia through discussions of various scenarios of possible
development. USD 2mln was spent within the program till now. A.A. -0–