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    EU ready to grant 100 mln euros to close Armenian nuclear plant
    By Tigran Liloyan

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    June 3, 2004 Thursday

    YEREVAN, June 3 -- The European Union has reiterated its readiness
    to allocate 100 million euros to close the Armenian nuclear power
    plant 40 kilometers west of the Armenian capital Yerevan, the press
    secretary of the Yerevan office of the European Commission's delegation
    in Georgia and Armenia, Anait Azatyan, told Itar-Tass on Thursday.

    The funds will be allotted after the talks on terms of the plant's
    shutdown are completed.

    The Armenian nuclear plant was launched in 1979 and shut down in 1989
    after a devastating earthquake. In 1996, Russia helped Armenia repair
    the second reactor and put the plant on line.

    This plant generates 40 percent of all electricity in Armenia. In the
    meantime, the EU is pressing for its closing. The Armenian authorities
    declared in response the plant's shutdown would be possible if the
    EU proposed alternative electric power sources. One of the options is
    to lay a gas pipeline from Iran to Armenia. The pipeline construction
    is expected to begin this year and be completed in 2006.
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