YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS. The Government of Armenia is planning to renovate more than 330km of roads in 2019, Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Suren Papikyan said at the September 12 Cabinet meeting.

“Currently the work is underway on renovating 307km of roads, another 70km is completed. In addition we have works in Yerevan which we haven’t spoken about. Works that are implemented also as part of subvention programs,” he said.

Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan added that the government will over-perform this year’s program and certain programs projected for 2020 will be included in the 2019 program. “Our plan by 2023 is that there will be a minimum of 2500km of inter-state and republican roads where renovation, reconstruction and medium restoration works will be done. This doesn’t include the North-South road section. This year we will have a record number in the road construction sector,” Avinyan said.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan emphasized that this means that nearly 500km of road restoration must be planned for 2020. “We are announcing this so that many of our countrymen who are engaged in these kind of works in Russia, Kazakhstan and are skilled in modern technologies to participate in the tenders. Therefore we must guarantee that the tenders will be won only by the kind of companies who are technically capable to deliver the work in time and quality,” the PM said.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan