The Vardenis Municipality allocates 24.5 million drams per year for garbage removal. The official dump, the province’s largest, is located close by.
Mkrtchyan had been serving as the head of the Arms Control and International Security Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Ashot Kocharyan has been relieved of his post as Armenia’s Ambassador to Lebanon as per an order signed by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
Arkady Gevorgyan, former president of Armenia’s Union of Fish Farmers, says that the sector is in bad shape due to the fact that Russia’s middle class, where a majority of Armenia’s fish exports went, are no longer consuming the product due to a weakened ruble.
The government has backed the plan and has given the company a three year pass when it comes to paying VAT on the equipment it will be importing.
A family of three lives in the only temporary metal hut in Landjaghbyur, a village in Armenia’s Gegharkunik Province.