YEREVAN, JANUARY 17, NOYAN TAPAN. 660 mln drams were allocated by the RA 2007 state budget for works of preservation and restoration of monuments. As Gagik Gyurjian, the RA Deputy Minister of Culture and Youth Issues mentioned in the interview to the Noyan Tapan correspondent, this sum of money is 60 mln less of the money allocated in 2006. In the Deputy Minister's words, the 2007 state budget allocations will be mainly directed to restoration works of 4 monuments. Besides, the Ministry envisaged to start this year works of preservation of ten other historic-cultural monuments. Sketch drafts of their restoration works have already been discussed at sittings of the Scientific-Methodological Council of the Agency for Restoration and Preservation of History and Culture Monuments. The Deputy Minister also stated that this year the agency will continue implementation of works of preservation, improvement of about 24 thousand monuments in the territory of the republic, specification of their preservation zones, certification, registration of newly discovered monuments, works of specification of lists of the monuments in the marzes of the republic.

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