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  • BAKU: Azerb., Armenia, Georgia, Russia to Establish Village Alliance

    TREND Information, Azerbaijan
    Aug. 11, 2006


    Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Russia to Establish Caucasian
    Mountain Villages Alliance

    Source: Trend
    Author: M. Karimova

    11.08.2006

    In the mountain village of Chiora of the On District of Georgia the
    representatives of municipalities and district administrations of
    eight pilot Caucasian villages of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and
    Russia have adopted the Memorandum on Intention of Establishment of
    the Alliance of Mountain Villages (Communities) of the Caucasus.

    The meeting was held within the Project of Steady Development of
    Mountain Regions of the Caucasus; the Local Agenda for the XXI
    Century of the Regional Ecological Centre of the Caucasus, Trend`
    reporter reports.

    According to the initiators of this process - the Director of the
    Regional Ecological Centre of the Caucasus Nato Kirvalidze and the
    representative of the Ministry of Environment and Radiation
    Protection of Germany Silvia Reppe who is a donor of the Centre`s
    projects, the Alliance of Mountain Villages of the Caucasus that was
    established on the example of the Alliance of Villages of the Alps
    could further the development of mountain villages, the solving of
    many problems of the villagers, and the join working out of efficient
    methods of self-governing. Experts point out that today the
    population of mountain villages of the Caucasus lives a separate life
    apart the World and the government of a country they live in, and
    sometimes they cannot cope with problems they face with in the
    mountains.

    The population of mountain villages often lives without elementary
    life conditions such as electricity, infrastructure of roads, medical
    care, telecommunications, etc. All the above-mentioned was told
    during the meeting by the representatives of the regional
    administration of the four countries.

    The leaders of the Centre of all the four countries told their own
    vision of the Alliance, and determined the fields the Alliance should
    act first. Speaking about the mechanism of launching of such an
    alliance, the participants` attention was focused on the proposal of
    the coordinator of the mentioned mountain project in Azerbaijan Azer
    Garayev, who suggest starting works on the 8+4 principle, i. e. the
    eight pilot villages start working on the establishment of the
    Alliance by the support of the four villages of the Alps Alliance
    which has existed for nearly 50 years, and unites 150 villages of the
    mountains. The experience of this alliance could help to establish
    the same alliance in the Caucasus faster.

    It should be noted that in 2003 the Alliance of Mountain Communities
    of Central, to which 37 villages have already entered was
    established.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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