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Turkey's river dam project unilateral decision - Armenian PM
15:16 - 21.12.13
Armenia's prime minister has described Turkey's $20 billion worth
river dam construction project as a unilateral decision threatening
Armenia's water resources.
Tigran Sargsyan addressed the problem at the presentation of
Karabakhfacts.com, the first Armenian online yearbook of comparative
and international law. He said the Turkish project may negatively
affect the water reserves in the Ararat valley.
`That country's government has made a unilateral decision;
particularly, it has allocated 20 billion Dollars for the construction
of dams on rivers highly influencing the water reserves in the Ararat
valley. Specialists' estimates suggest that we will have serious
problems with the irrigation networks in the Ararat valley years
later,' said the premier.
Sargsyan said Armenia has real legal mechanisms allowing it to protect
its national interests. He particularly stressed the importance of
using the international treaties, conventions and other instruments
that would help back the country's rights at international tribunals.
In that context, he referred also to the treaties concluded back in
the Soviet period.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/12/21/tigran-sargsyan6/
15:16 - 21.12.13
Armenia's prime minister has described Turkey's $20 billion worth
river dam construction project as a unilateral decision threatening
Armenia's water resources.
Tigran Sargsyan addressed the problem at the presentation of
Karabakhfacts.com, the first Armenian online yearbook of comparative
and international law. He said the Turkish project may negatively
affect the water reserves in the Ararat valley.
`That country's government has made a unilateral decision;
particularly, it has allocated 20 billion Dollars for the construction
of dams on rivers highly influencing the water reserves in the Ararat
valley. Specialists' estimates suggest that we will have serious
problems with the irrigation networks in the Ararat valley years
later,' said the premier.
Sargsyan said Armenia has real legal mechanisms allowing it to protect
its national interests. He particularly stressed the importance of
using the international treaties, conventions and other instruments
that would help back the country's rights at international tribunals.
In that context, he referred also to the treaties concluded back in
the Soviet period.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/12/21/tigran-sargsyan6/