Zvartnots airport passenger traffic grew by 12% in 2016January 13, 2017 - 14:24 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The passenger traffic at Yerevan’s Zvartnots international airport soared by 12% in 2016 as compared to the previous year. In all the Armenian airports, the traffic grew by 10.4% in January-December 2016, up by around 200.000 passengers overall. According to the General Department of Civil Aviation, 2.105.540 passengers have used the services of the airport in the reporting period. In 2016, 18.269 tons of cargo has been transported, up by 80.4% against 2015. Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |