ZVARTNOTS IS SAFE AND SECURE

Lragir, Armenia
Dec 18 2007

Today President Robert Kocharyan and the head of the General Department
of Civil Aviation Artem Movsisyan met and discussed the new building of
Zvartnots airport, the airport off Gyumri and other issues relating
to aviation. Artem Movsisyan informed that the concessionaire of
Zvartnost has already bid for the construction of a new building for
check-in, security and border control, which will be soon extended
to the government.

According to the head of the General Department of Civil Aviation,
the number of passengers in 2007 totaled 1.5 million which is up by
half a million from 2003 and 2004.

Artem Movsisyan also presented the results of the security and safety
audit of Zvartnots by ICAO. The results suggest that faults are 7
percent compared with an average of 40 of other countries.

They also discussed the involvement of the renovated airport of Gyumri
in the flights and organizational documents of the European airlines.