ARMENIA DM FLIES TO PLANE CRASH SITE

ITAR-TASS, Russia
May 3 2006

YEREVAN, May 3 (Itar-Tass) – On the instructions of the Armenian
president Armenian Defence Minister Serzh Sarkisian who also chairs the
intergovernmental committee for Russian-Armenian economic cooperation
flied to Sochi on Wednesday to coordinate the efforts for investigating
the causes and the circumstances of the air crash of an airplane
Airbus belonging to the Armenian air company, it was stated at the
end of a meeting with Armenian President Robert Kocharian.

“Chief of the main civil aviation department in the Armenian government
Artyom Movsesian reported about the details of the tragedy,” the
Armenian presidential press service told Itar-Tass.

A committee has been set up for the transportation and the funeral of
the crash victims. Minister of Territorial Management Ovik Abramian
heads the committee.

The Armenian general prosecutor reported that criminal proceedings
were instituted over the crash.