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    ARMENIA HONORS BIRTH OF '7TH BILLION CHILD'
    Satenik Vantsian

    Armenialiberty.org
    Oct 31 2011

    Armenia has joined in the largely symbolic celebration of the birth
    of the world's seventh billion person expected by the United Nations
    on Monday.

    A baby boy born into the Voskanian family in the northern Armenian
    town of Artik 20 minutes past midnight on Monday was declared by
    the Armenia office of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
    to be the seven billionth living person on Earth.

    Thousands of babies are born around the world every hour, and it
    is hardly possible to precisely tell which of the newborns gets the
    honor of taking the human race to that landmark. Therefore, the United
    Nations has apparently decided to go without officially naming anyone
    to be that child, with every country picking its own honoree.

    Talking to RFE/RL's Armenian Service (Azatutyun.am), UNFPA Armenia
    Country Office Executive Representative Garik Hayrapetian said
    the estimation of the world population is based on "a very serious
    scientific approach". Still, he added: "Five children are born every
    second, and I don't think it is possible to tell exactly which child
    is born to be the seventh billion."

    The baby in Artik, who was named Vahram, was born two weeks
    prematurely. He weighs 2.9 kilograms (or about 6 pounds and 6 ounces)
    and is now under the supervision of local doctors. Vahram's parents
    are residents of the nearby village of Pemzashen.

    His father, Garik Voskanian, was not in town to celebrate the occasion
    with his family. Like many in this economically depressed area he had
    gone to Russia as a migrant worker. His close relatives say, however,
    he will come back soon to see his son.

    The UN office undertook to provide Vahram with all essential items in
    the postnatal period, while the maternity hospital in Artik issued a
    special certificate to the little one and the town's mayor gave him
    a letter of gratitude.

    The maternal hospital in Artik was chosen for the symbolic celebration
    as an establishment that by its level of equipment and the number of
    recorded births yields to other similar centers in Armenia. The UN
    office on Monday donated a mobile echoscope to the center.

    The UN estimates that the number of living persons on the planet will
    reach eight billion in 2025, while the world population is expected
    to hit the 10-billion mark in 2083.

    http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/24377265.html

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