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YEREVAN, JUNE 15, ARMENPRESS. Ararat Governor Sedrak Tevonyan has assured foreign diplomats visiting the village of Yeraskh that the steelworks which is being built in the village doesn’t pose any environmental threats.

Tevonyan dismissed the Azerbaijani claims alleging that the plant’s construction poses environmental hazards and noted that Azerbaijani authorities actually want to disrupt the development of Armenia’s border towns.

“The Azerbaijani actions seek to disrupt the normal course of development of Armenia’s border towns. They make claims about environmental issues, but I assure you that no such issues exist,” the governor told foreign ambassadors who visited the village a day after the construction site came under Azeri cross-border gunfire, wounding two workers.

200 people are involving in the construction of the plant.

Approximately 1000 people will work at the plant when it gets launched.