FIRST LADY OF GEORGIA FINISHED HER VISIT TO ARMENIA

Black Sea Press
Jan 18 2007

Tbilisi. January 18. /BLACK SEA PRESS/ Today, on January 18 First
Lady of Georgia Sandra Roelofs finished her three-day working visit
to Armenia having visited the Consumption Center in Abovian town.

News Georgia reports that Sandra Roelofs stated to journalists that
basic accents had been made on cooperating in the field of health
and culture.

"I, ambassador of the World Health Organization for Fighting
Consumption have been charged by Geneva to visit the states, where
the consumption represents much problem", she stated.

Sandra Roelofs declared that she had handed over the World Health
Organization recommendations to Armenian doctors to elaborate a
five-year program for fighting against consumption and for improving
the situation in labs.

She informed that 2 000 cases of infecting with consumption were
registered annually in Armenia, while this number amounted to 6 000
ones in Georgia.

As to the fight against the AIDS, the First Lady stressed the
impressive achievement of Armenia in this field and the AIDS Center
Activity.

"There is no AIDS epidemic in Armenia. Here, contrary to Georgia,
even drug addiction isn’t an actual problem, because Armenia is
comparatively a closed state and it has got no transit functions like
Georgia", Sandra Roelofs declared.

The First Lady informed that she would start propagandizing the
healthy lifestyle in the secondary schools of Georgia within the
fight against drug addiction in late January.

When talking about the culture field, Sandra Roelofs declared that
there was an idea in Armenia to set up the Caucasian Youth Symphony
Orchestra and to organize a summer camp nearby Lake Sevan so that
young Georgian and Armenian musicians could have a rest and work.

"We find the realization of those agreements and ideas arisen during
the visit of crucial importance and, therefore, we have to perform
much work in Georgia", Sandra Roelofs stated to journalists.