ARMENIAN LEADER SAYS NEW ENERGY PROJECTS TO IMPROVE COUNTRY’S SECURITY

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Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 09:00 CDT
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President Serzh Sargsyan has said that an Iran-Armenia gas pipeline
will be put into operation in the future and that this fact will be
a new phenomenon in Armenia’s economic life.

"We should be able to manage two opposite gas routes [from Iran
and Russia]. We should also do our best to put into operation the
5th energy unit of the Hrazdan thermal power plant by the planned
deadline so that we can run the economy efficiently. If the new
nuclear power plant is put into operation, the share of the nuclear
and thermal energy [sectors] will be almost equal. Concurrently,
it is also necessary to develop the hydroelectric power [industry].

"Work has already begun in all these sectors. This will essentially
change the quality of our country’s security," he said yesterday
[23 September].

Originally published by Hayots Ashkharh, Yerevan, in Armenian 24 Sep
08, p 1.

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