Armenian Emergency Ministry To Receive Japanese Grant For Purchasing

ARMENIAN EMERGENCY MINISTRY TO RECEIVE JAPANESE GRANT FOR PURCHASING FIREFIGHTING EQUIPMENT

ARKA
Aug 6, 2008

YEREVAN, August 6. /ARKA/. Japanese Development Agency will provide
$9 million to Armenian Emergency Ministry in grant for purchasing
firefighting equipment, Emergency Minister Mher Shahgeldyan said
on Tuesday.

According to the ministry’s figures, 601 fires a fire broke out in
Armenia in the first half of 2008 against 327 at the same period of
the previous year.

These fires caused damage of AMD 232 million or $770,000, took lives
of 17 people (18 in 2007) and injured 38 people against 19 a year
earlier.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS