RA GOVERNMENT PROPOSES TO CHANGE NAMES OF 52 SETTLEMENTS
YEREVAN, APRIL 21, NOYAN TAPAN. The draft concerning making amendments
and additions to the RA law “On RA Administrative-Territorial Division”
was approved at the April 21 sitting of the RA Government. The draft
was worked out to liquidate foreign, inharmonious and repeated names
of settlements. The decision proposes to involve the Verin Giratagh
community of the marz of Syunik in the community of Lernadzor as a
rural settlement, and the Pirlu (Verin Geghavank) and Kyurut (Karut)
communities in the community of Geghi as a rural settlement. Taking
into account the wish of inhabitation of the Ayrum community of the
marz of Tavush, the positive opinion of interested state bodies as
well as the fact that Ayrum is practically an urban settlement with
corresponding infrastructures and has no lands of agricultural
meaning, it is proposed the give Ayrum status of an urban community.
As Manuk Vardanian, the Chairman of the State Committee of the Real
Estate Cadastre attached to the RA Government, informed journalists
after the sitting, about 60% of 40 thousand settlements, valleys,
channels, mountains of the republic are not Armenian. Names of in
total, 52 settlements are at present proposed to change. M.Vardanian
mentioned that 38 of them have a Turkish name. And names of 5
settlements will be changed at the inhabitation’s request, the main
part of which is Kurds. The process of changing the names is envisaged
to finish till late this year. According to M.Vardanian, it was also
decided to name after public, political, scientific and cultural
figures only in 10 years after their death.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
