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    MINING AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: ARMENIA'S CHOICES

    8:23 28/11/2012 " ECONOMY

    International and local experts will gather in Yerevan on November 30
    for a one-day conference examining mining and socio-economic policy
    in Armenia, the American University of Armenia reports.

    AUA is organizing an event that aims to assess the choices available
    to Armenia as it seeks to balance economic gains with that of social
    equity and environmental health. The conference will be held in AUA's
    Manoogian Hall, from 9:30am-5:30pm (Yerevan time). It will livestream
    online at http://aua.am/mining.

    Over the past decade, the Armenian Government has made mining a
    priority for Armenia's economic growth. However, no serious public
    debate has occurred to examine policy choices available to Armenia
    regarding mining. With this conference, AUA hopes to begin such a
    critical public discourse, bringing together experts from across the
    world to present their analyses and discuss socio-economic policy
    choices available to Armenia.

    The day-long conference will begin with the keynote speaker Dr. Saleem
    Ali, Director of the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at
    the University of Queensland, Australia. Dr. Ali will talk about
    international experience in the role of mining in economic growth
    and social development. Following this presentation, experts will
    briefly present a statistical overview of mining in Armenia. The event
    will then hold three panel discussions focused on Armenia. The first
    panel will examine whether mining can play a key role in Armenia's
    economic growth, while the second panel will focus on mining's impact
    on Armenia's environmental and public health. The third and last panel
    will explore whether Armenia's legal and institutional framework on
    mining fosters socio-economic development.

    These issues will be discussed against the larger backdrop of a growing
    unease in and outside Armenia on the potential benefits and risks of
    mining to the country's socio-economic and environmental future. Thus
    far, the social, environmental and public health concerns have been
    overshadowed by the argument that Armenia does not have many choices
    and mining will be the growth engine of its emerging economy.

    In the past two decades, however, there have been many constructive
    developments around mining in the international arena. The industry as
    a whole has improved its practices, while international organizations
    and governments have adopted standards for environmentally cleaner
    and socially more equitable mining.

    This conference aims to become a model for a constructive and
    high-impact way in which AUA can contribute to public-policy
    debates in Armenia. The day-long event is open to the public. The
    presentations and discussions of the conference will also be made
    available on YouTube post event. For more information and updates
    visit http://aua.am/mining.

    Source: Panorama.am

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