Nelli Danielyan, Yerkir Media TV
Ra Ministry of Nature Protection and Russian company “Atomredmetzoloto” signed an agreement on creation of a joint-stock company on uranium geological exploration at the territory of Armenia. The new company will start its works in September 2008.
According to deputy director of Rosatom, Nikolay Spaskiy the Russian party is not going to raise its share in the company. The first year it must be investes $ 3 mln, after the confirmation of uranium reserve’s existence the sum will rise in tens millions. Armenian Nature Protection Minister Aram Harutyunyan said that the uranium geological exploration isn’t dangerous. “How you know it may be dangerous only during the concentrating of uranium”, - said the minister.
May 26, 2008