ARMINFO News Agency
September 23, 2005

OSCE TO SUPPORT ARMENIA IN ECOLOGY INITIATIVES

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 23. ARMINFO. “We and our Planet” educational and
environmental program was presented today at the Yerevan Museum of
Armenia’s Nature. The program has been initiated and implemented by
“Khazer” environmental and cultural NGO with the support of the OSCE
Office in Yerevan and the Aarhus Center.

Within the project 10 brochures and 5 posters have been published in
2004 on the following topics: the first betrayal against nature,
climate change, preservation of ozone layer, forest, water,
biodiversity, persistent organic pollutants, fish and birds of
Armenia, Lake Sevan problem, and genetically modified organisms. This
year the publications were enriched by 6 new posters and 4 brochures:
our environment and the Aarhus Convention, specially protected
natural areas, earthquake protection, and alternative energy.

Head of “Khazer” NGO Amalia Hambartsumyan noted that the program has
been implemented from 2003, 100 copies of 11 posters and 14 brochures
have been published within this period. 400 schools of general
education have already received the completes. The OSCE Office in
Yerevan allotted $4.000 for publishing the second completes, she
noted.

Welcoming the activists of Armenia’s ecological movement, Head of the
OSCE Office in Yerevan Vladimir Pryakhin named the program the
“family holiday”. He stressed that “titanic efforts of ecological
society do not go out in Armenia until the people of this country
live in harmony with nature”. Pryakhin also noted that the OSCE
welcomes the ecological initiatives in Armenia and will continue
supporting them.