STATE AGENCY FOR SPREADING PUBLISHED EDITIONS IS BEGINNING TO BE PRIVATIZED IN ARMENIA

PanARMENIAN.Net - 22.09.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Today the government of Armenia decided to start the spade-work of privatization of the state agency for spreading published editions (State Closed JSC "Armpress").

As was reported to MEDIAMAX in the press service of the government of

Armenia, a specially set up commission will submit proposals on the privatization of "Armpress" company and its regional branches within three months.

Today the composition of state representatives to State Closed JSC "Gazeta Respublika Armenia" was also affirmed at the meeting - they will be the chiefs of the press services of the president, government and the parliament, as well as the head of the Information and book-printing department at the government of Armenia.

"Respublika Armenia" official paper, which had earlier been the body of the National Assembly of the country, has stopped its publication beginning summer 2000. The paper, which had multimillion debts, was recently declared bankrupt, then it was re-registered, and after it CJSC "Gazeta Respublika Armenia" was formed. Its editor-in-chief Vardan Aloyan informed MEDIAMAX that most likely, all organizational questions will be settled within a month, after which the paper will be published again.-0-