Armenia president wants four-million population by 2040May 18, 2017 - 14:20 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Improvement of Armenia’s demographic indicators must be a key objective in the coming decades, president Serzh Sargsyan said addressing the first session of the 6th Convocation National Assembly. “As a result of a rapid improvement of the demographic situation, at least four million people must be living in Armenia by 2040,” Sargsyan said on Thursday, May 18. According to him, developments in the demographic situation in the last 25 years were conditioned by a number of objective and subjective factors, while the results are extremely disturbing and unacceptable. Sargsyan said the country needs to stop emigration, boost birth rates and create conditions for repatriation. Read also: Armenia ready for compromise; no unilateral concessions on Karabakh Top stories David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says. Partner news | Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |