Old transport facilities should go out of useMarch 28, 2009 - 20:19 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - It's not a secret that motor car parks in Armenia use transport facilities which have been in operation over 10 years."Security of our citizens should never be jeopardized," RA Minister of Transport Gurgen Sargsyan told reporters on Saturday. "In developed countries, operation life of passenger vehicles is 3-5 years. In the countries in transition period, it was reduced to 5 years," he said. Some 1000 passenger vehicles should go out of use in Armenia and be replaced with new ones. Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |