660 MLN DRAMS ALLOCATED BY 2007 STATE BUDGET FOR PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF MONUMENTS
Noyan Tapan
Jan 17 2007
YEREVAN, JANUARY 17, NOYAN TAPAN. 660 mln drams were allocated by
the RA 2007 state budget for works of preservation and restoration
of monuments. As Gagik Gyurjian, the RA Deputy Minister of Culture
and Youth Issues mentioned in the interview to the Noyan Tapan
correspondent, this sum of money is 60 mln less of the money
allocated in 2006. In the Deputy Minister’s words, the 2007 state
budget allocations will be mainly directed to restoration works of
4 monuments.
Besides, the Ministry envisaged to start this year works of
preservation of ten other historic-cultural monuments. Sketch drafts
of their restoration works have already been discussed at sittings of
the Scientific-Methodological Council of the Agency for Restoration
and Preservation of History and Culture Monuments.
The Deputy Minister also stated that this year the agency will continue
implementation of works of preservation, improvement of about 24
thousand monuments in the territory of the republic, specification
of their preservation zones, certification, registration of newly
discovered monuments, works of specification of lists of the monuments
in the marzes of the republic.
