80 Percent Of The Armenian Population Is Liable To Disaster Risk

80 PERCENT OF THE ARMENIAN POPULATION IS LIABLE TO DISASTER RISK

Lragir.am
14/12/09

Today, the Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan was present at the World
Bank funded discussion of the report on decline of catastrophe
risk and administration of states of emergency in which local
and international experts and representatives of non-governmental
organizations participated.

The head of the Armenian office of the World Bank Aristomene Varudakis
noted that the 80 percent of the Armenian population is liable to
catastrophe risks.

Numerous natural disasters threaten Armenia which have already caused
much social-economic damages to the country and will keep seizing
the country’s limited measures until the government did not take up
preventive measures.

Proposals on working out a project aimed at declining the risk of
natural disasters in Armenia based at the systems, mechanisms and
structural abilities of the country to resist effectively disasters
were made. Additional authority was proposed to be allocated to
communes, as well as to assist initiatives, to boost the cooperation
of the country with the private sector.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS