EXPERT URGES ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT TO BACK COUNTRY’S JEWELRY MAKING

ARKA
Apr 10, 2009

YEREVAN, April 10. /ARKA/. Government intervention is necessary to
boost Armenia’s jewelry-making business, Director of Yerevan Jewelry
Factory Emil Grigoryan said Thursday at an exhibition of jeweler’s
art books at Armenia’s National Library.

The main problems of the sector are connected with handling the new
marketing policy, he said, urging the government to help the local
jewelry-making business address the existing problems.

Director of the Armenian National Library David Sargsyan pointed out at
the opening ceremony the ancient traditions of Armenian jeweler’s art.

Rafik Harutyunyan, member of the RA Library Association Board, stressed
the importance of state-of-the-art jewelry making in Armenia. He
emphasized the role of retraining marketing specialists to work in
jewelry making business, as well as ensuring the design-sales-marketing
chain.