DAY OF RA NAS NEW CHAIRMAN’S ELECTION TO BE DEFINED ON APRIL 19

Noyan Tapan
Apr 13 2006

YEREVAN, APRIL 13, NOYAN TAPAN. The day of electing the new Chairman of
the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia will be decided at April 19
sitting of the RA NAS Chairmanship. Academician Sergey Hambardzumian,
the acting Chairman of the CIS stated about this at the April 12 annual
general meeting. Academician-Secretary Eduard Ghazarian presented
the report on work of the academy. According to the report data, as
of January 1, 2006, 3724 people, including 2115 scientific workers,
80 full members and 18 corresponding members of the RA NAS work in
the academy staff. The total sum of financing of the academy made
a bit more than 3 bln drams (about 6.7 mln U.S. dollars), 2 bln 244
mln drams of which is budget financing. The academy got additional
140 mln drams from the RA Government’s reserving fund for purposeful
programs and capital construction. Non-budget financial resources made
630 mln drams. 75% of all the financial resources was allocated to
scietific-research institutes, 5% to academic institutions, including
libraries, the Scientific-Educational Center, etc. The share of
the RA NAS Chairmanship made about 5%. Fadey Sargsian, the former
Chairman of the NAS, whose resignation took place at his request,
thanked all those who he has worked with during the last years. He
mentioned that the year of 2005 was a difficult one for the academy,
particularly, in the sense of coming reforms. But according to him, the
academy employees were able to widen the international scientific ties,
implement a number of most important researches and workings out. He
expressed confindence that anybody who will occupy the Chairman’s
post, will work better than he, even owing to his being younger,
and wished success to the new administration. The general meeting
estimated the 2005 work of the academy satisfactory.