MOSCOW-BASED ARMENIAN BUSINESSMEN PLEDGE $15 MILLION TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH

Armenpress

STEPANAKERT, FEBRUARY 9, ARMENPRESS: Moscow-based businessmen
of Armenian origin have pledged $15 million in assistance to
Nagorno-Karabkh’s government to help it implement a series of
humanitarian programs and improve irrigation systems in a number of
rural areas.

The pledge was made last week when Nagorno-Karabkh leader Arkady
Ghukasian was visiting Moscow and met with these businessmen. Ghukasian
was in Moscow to be confered the titles of member of two Russian
acadmies.

One is called Russian Academy for Security, Defense and Legal Issues
and the other is called International Relations Science Academy.

In Moscow Ghukasian also met with some Russian diplomats to discuss
the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.