NO ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION RECORDED AFTER ACCIDENT AT NAIRIT PLANT

Noyan Tapan
May 17, 2009

Yerevan, May 17, Noyan Tapan. No environment pollution has been
recorded after accident at the Nairit plant, said Harutyun Kuchkyan,
minister of health care of Armenia on May 15. Mr.Kuchkyan refuted,
that 2 schools and 2 kindergartens of Shengavit community have been
closed because of the danger of poisoning emission after the blast
and fire at the Nairit plant.

According to the minister, there has not been any danger and won’t be.

No environmental pollution risks, including water pollution, have been
revealed through examination of the Environmental Inspection of Nature
Protection Ministry. According to Marzpetuni Kamalyan, deputy Head of
State Environmental Inspection, after the blast content of chloroprene,
azoth, carbon oxides, dust, benzyl, toluol in Yerevan’s atmosphere
have remained within the norm, which has been monitored at 5 locations.