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The agenda of the Armenian Government for the meeting of 10 July includes the RA landslide disaster management concept.
The objective of the concept is to create a landslip disaster management system in the Tepublic of Armenia and to run a proper policy, as the official website of the Armenian Government says.
As the concept appendix says, from 2004 to 2006 “Studies on Landslide Disaster Management in the Republic of Armenia” projct was carried out by the Japan International Cooperation Agency in the frames of the grant alloted by the Japanese Government. Active faults of 2504 identified landslides were detected by studying aerial photography. Under the studies, the total area of landslides is 1216 km2, which makes up 4.1% of the area in the republic. 233 communities in the country are located in the landslide hazardous places, where hundreds of residential houses, communication ways and other objects are damaged. 240 km out of 7400 roadway network (3.2%) has been damaged with 280 landslides. 4.8 km out of 870 railway communications (0.5%) has been damaged with 10 landslides etc. Under the research team of Japan International Cooperation Agency, in 2004 the direct damage caused to socio-economic structures of the republic from landslide disaster of 145 landslide areas made up 19.395 billion AMD, while the potential damage is 23.985 billion AMD.
July 09, 2013 at 11:32