YSU THIRD OF ARMENIA’S SICENTIFIC POTENTIAL

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
March 2 2007

YEREVAN, March 2. /Novosti-Armenia/. A third of Armenia’s scientific
potential falls to the share of Yerevan State University (YSU),
YSU Rector Aram Simonyan told reporters.

"1,300 out of 4,000 scientific papers published in 2006 fall to
YSU’s share, which confirms that YSU remains the country’s leading
scientific center," he said.

According to Simonyan, the Government must pay more attention to the
scientific sector.

He pointed out that the RA Ministry of Education and Science has
started reforms and expressed hope that the concept of scientific
reforms will radically change the situation.

A total of AMD 5.5bln are budgeted for the scientific sector in
Armenia in 2007.

On August 18, 2006, the RA Government approved the schedule of measures
under the concept of scientific reforms.

The reforms are aimed at forming a universal system of state management
of Armenia’s scientific sector, enhancing the efficiency of scientific
institutions, modernizing the infrastructure and material and technical
base, specifying the major scientific fields to be developed in
Armenia, integrating science and education and commercializing
scientific products. P.T.