NINE ARMENIAN TOWNS HAVE SISTER-TOWN AGREEMENTS WITH 27 TOWNS
ARMENPRESS
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
YEREVAN
Nine Armenian towns have sister-town agreements with 27 towns of
different countries of the world. An official from the Territorial
Governance Administration Ministry press department told Armenpress
that Yerevan has 16 sister-towns. Sister-town agreement with Italian
Karara town was signed in 1973 and with Madagascar’s Antananarivo
in 1981. Yerevan’s sister-towns are Cambridge, Odessa, Tbilisi,
Damascus, Kishinev, Beirut, Bratislava, Ispahan, Montreal, San Paulo,
Rostov-on-Don, Los Angeles, Nice, Marseilles.
Gyumri has sister-town agreements with Alexandria (USA), Thessaloniki
(Greece) and Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Artik has agreements with Vio Viel
(France), Artashat with Klamar (France), Alaverdi with Kabuleti
(Georgia) and St. Ioanirenti (Greece), Sevan with Grenoble (France),
Vardenis with Roman (France), Gavar with Novorossiysk, Jermuk with San
Rafaelo (France). According to the same source, with the memorandum
of mutual understanding signed at the 8th session of Armenian-Iranian
inter-governmental commission Syunik’s Meghri, Kapan and Iran’s Joulfa
and Marand have been declared sister-towns.