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    ARMENPRESS

    PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN VISITS NEW DEFENSE MINISTRY
    PREMISES

    YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, ARMENPRESS: President Robert
    Kocharian visited today the new under construction
    premises of the defense ministry. Colonel Armen
    Sarkisian, head of a defense ministry department in
    charge of major construction and troops housing, spoke
    in detail about the new building.
    He said the complex will occupy a space of 26
    hectares. It will have sporting grounds and a parking
    lot for helicopters to land and take off.
    Speaking to journalists Kocharian said they expect
    the work to be fully over late in May and then the
    ministry, the central headquarters and other military
    infrastructures will move into the new modern
    building.
    Now the ministry is in one building while some of
    its major departments are housed in different parts of
    the town. The idea, according to Kocharian, is to
    house all in one building for a better coordination of
    defense and related activities.
    The construction of the new premises will cost 13
    billion Drams. According to the defense minister
    Mikael Harutunian, they are off-budget funds.
    Today Kocharian also had a consultative meeting
    with army brass, attended by foreign minister Vartan
    Oskanian. Later Kocharian told journalists they had
    discussed details of a CSTO military exercise
    scheduled to be held in Armenia late in summer.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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