660 MLN DRAMS ALLOCATED BY 2007 STATE BUDGET FOR
PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF MONUMENTS
17-01-2007 15:54:00 | Armenia | Culture
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.