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NUMEROUS ARMENIAN CHILDREN BORN IN 1990S GREW UP IN SHACKS - NEWSPAPER
http://news.am/eng/news/131543.html
December 07, 2012 | 09:17
YEREVAN. - Twenty-four years have passed since the earthquake that
destroyed many parts of northern Armenia, and especially Gyumri city,
but the disaster zone has not been fully recovered to this day. In
this connection, Iravunk daily interviewed the coalition government's
junior partner Orinats Yerkir (Rule of Law) Party (RLP) MP Hovhannes
Margaryan, who had experienced this disaster first hand.
"I, as an MP from Gyumri, find that there are two key matters in
Gyumri: homelessness and unemployment. After [capital city] Yerevan,
Gyumri was the second largest industrial city. There were tens of
thousands of jobs, which were lost. After the earthquake, 80-90
percent of the [city's] large industrial enterprises were leveled to
the ground.
The children, who were born in shacks in the 1990s, sadly, are giving
birth to their children in the same shacks. Over the course of the
24 years, those children grew up in shacks, got married, and a second
generation is being born.
In this sense, I attach an importance that so much money was invested
[to eliminate the aftermath of the quake], and 3,000 homeless families
in Gyumri alone became homeowners in the past two years. [A total of]
420 apartments will be built in 2013, and this enables me to say that
this key issue will be resolved," Iravunk quotes RLP MP Hovhannes
Margaryan as saying.
From: A. Papazian
http://news.am/eng/news/131543.html
December 07, 2012 | 09:17
YEREVAN. - Twenty-four years have passed since the earthquake that
destroyed many parts of northern Armenia, and especially Gyumri city,
but the disaster zone has not been fully recovered to this day. In
this connection, Iravunk daily interviewed the coalition government's
junior partner Orinats Yerkir (Rule of Law) Party (RLP) MP Hovhannes
Margaryan, who had experienced this disaster first hand.
"I, as an MP from Gyumri, find that there are two key matters in
Gyumri: homelessness and unemployment. After [capital city] Yerevan,
Gyumri was the second largest industrial city. There were tens of
thousands of jobs, which were lost. After the earthquake, 80-90
percent of the [city's] large industrial enterprises were leveled to
the ground.
The children, who were born in shacks in the 1990s, sadly, are giving
birth to their children in the same shacks. Over the course of the
24 years, those children grew up in shacks, got married, and a second
generation is being born.
In this sense, I attach an importance that so much money was invested
[to eliminate the aftermath of the quake], and 3,000 homeless families
in Gyumri alone became homeowners in the past two years. [A total of]
420 apartments will be built in 2013, and this enables me to say that
this key issue will be resolved," Iravunk quotes RLP MP Hovhannes
Margaryan as saying.
From: A. Papazian