WORLD BANK EXPECTED TO APPROVE SECOND CREDIT PROGRAM FOR REFORMING ARMENIAN JUDICIARY
The World Bank Board of Directors is expected to approve March 8 a second credit to the government of Armenia which it will use to continue judicial reforms. Besides the credit which is $22.5 million, the government will also receive a $3 million grant from the government of Japan to back up the reforms.
Arthur Tunian, head of a special office set up to coordinate judicial reform program, said 800 million U.S. Dollars will be released for the preparatory stage. He said the money will be spent on repair of court houses and construction of 15 new court buildings. He said apart from improving conditions part of the money will be spend on acquisition of computers and other equipment.
Another part of this money will be used to accomplish a program for recording court hearings that was started by the first credit program last year.
The first credit program had a budget of $11.5 million. Seven million were spent on building new court houses and improving conditions in another 14. Part of that money was spent on purchase of computers and equipment . The second credit program will target court houses outside Yerevan.
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- 440 Death of Mesrop Mashtots, the creator of the Armenian alphabet.
- 1828 Signature of the agreement proposed by the Persian Monarch. It was concluded at Turkmenchay. According to this agreement, the Russo-Persian War of 1826-1828 was terminated. Yerevan and Nakhijevan, as well as the whole of Transcaucasia, were joined to Russia.
- 1918 The Transcaucasian Seim opens in Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1935 Birth of Zori Balayan (physician, Artsakh movement activist).
- 1939 Death of Archbishop Torgom Gooshakian of Jerusalem. He was a literary figure and philologist .
- 1950 Death of Armen Tigranyan (composer) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1879.
- 1960 Completion of the Karadak-Kazakh-Yerevan gas pipeline. The torch at Yerevan's Lenin square is lit.
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