ALAVERDI IS BECOMING SOCIALLY VULNERABLE
Support A1+!Alaverdi’s copper-molybdenum factory will likely close down in 2008. The factory belongs to “ACP” CJSC. Local residents are seriously concerned over the factory’s impending closure as it feeds over 1100 families.
“The closure will cause unemployment. We shall return to the 90s. Today we can hardly afford our bare necessities with salaries. What will become of us if the factory is closed down? It is an anchor of hope for many families,” residents say.
34-year-old Hrachia Mikayelian compares the closure with a son’s death.
“ACP” Director Nikolay Feofanov states the closure is determined by high taxes of gas, electricity and waste.
Nikolay Feofanov states the employees will get jobs at Teghut’s copper-molybdenum mine. But the construction of roads of this infrastructure will take four years.
Today, the specialists of the factory get a salary of 75 thousand AMD a month. They can hardly afford daily bread with the sum. Judging by the current scene in the town we can assume that Alaverdi will soon become socially and ecologically vulnerable.
