ARMENIA INVITED FOR NGOS’ CONSULTATIVE MEETING ON PROJECT OF ROADS RESTORATION IN SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHK, GEORGIA

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
March 9 2006

YEREVAN, March 9. /ARKA/. Armenia is invited to take part in NGOs’
consultative meeting on March 14 in Tbilisi on the project of roads
restoration in Samtskhe-Javakhk, Georgia’s Armenian-populated province,
as part of Millennium Challenges American Corporation program, Caucasus
Environmental NGO Network’s press service told ARKA News Agency.

The press-release says Millennium Challenges Georgian Office’s
conditions on the project are to be discussed at the meeting.

The aim of the meeting is to present the process of the project
implementation to NGOs and people and consider possibility of public
participation in it, the press release says.

Millennium Challenges American Corporation approved five-year program
for Georgia that costs $295.3mln. Tbilisi intends to target some
$130mln for Samtskhe-Javakhk development, of which $110mln will be
spent for new highway construction.