YEREVAN, December 8. /ARKA/. In 2010, 1056 families living in the second largest city of Armenia – Gyumri, who were left homeless after destructive Spitak earthquake will get apartments, said Armenian Minister of Urban Planning Vardan Vardanyan in the Armenian Parliament on Wednesday.

“Currently, all construction works are finished and 1056 families are recognized beneficiaries of housing program. At present, privatization of apartments is in a process”, he said.

Construction company “Glendale Hills” received 24 billion drams for the implementation of the program in 2009. In 2010 funding was 19.9 billion drams. No foreign investments were involved in the construction works.

Specially established commission deals with distribution of apartments which consists of representatives of all interested parties. For the provision of transparency of the commission’s activity, representatives of NGOs and journalists are included in it.

Distribution process is open and transparent.

In 2010, 1624 families got apartments in earthquake zone: 1056 – in Gyumri, 306 – in Lori region villages, 220 – in Spitak and 42 – in Stepanavan.

It is planned to finish the construction program in 2012. It costs about 65 billion drams.

At present, more than 6.9 thousand families are included in the list of homeless families suffered from earthquake.

On December 7, 1988 destructive earthquake took place in the north of Armenia – Spitak and Leninakan (current Gyumri) and more than hundred villages at 11.41 a.m. Other cities were ruined partially. The focus of earthquake was Spitak – 10 points by 12- point scale. That day 25 thousand people died, 140 thousand became invalids and half a million was left homeless. –0–

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IMF: INFLATION IN ARMENIA IS 9.5% IN NOVEMBER 2010 WITH TENDENCY OF REDUCTION (www.arka.am)
YEREVAN, December 3. /ARKA/. Inflation in Armenia is 9.5% in November 2010 compared with November 2009, said permanent representative of IMF in Armenia Guillermo Tolosa.

“We think that inflation will reduce in the result of optimal policy conducted by the Central Bank”, said Tolosa in his report on the developments of regional and global economies.

In January-October 2010 Armenia registered inflation of 7.9% compared with the same period of 2009. According to the state budget, inflation in 2010 is planned on the level of 4% (±1.5%) in Armenia.

Level of inflation is conditioned by the fact that the share of food products in consumer base of Armenia is rather high and increase of their prices in the world markets seriously impact on the inflation.

“If CB Armenia would like to solve inflation problem, it has very few instruments for its implementation There is no need to change the percent rates. It will take place in natural way ”, said Tolosa.

By the results of 2010 inflation in Armenia will be 6%. EBRD experts consider that inflation indicator will be in the margins envisaged by CB Armenia in 2010. World Bank thinks that at the end of 2010 inflation will be from 5.5% to 6.5%.

Opinions of the experts in the issue of inflation forecast in Armenia significantly differ and vary between the planned level of 5.5% to 10%. G.K. –0–