We,

- proceeding from the execlings undertakings of states and the international community on preventing the pollution of the environment,

- based on the integration of such cocepts, developed by the UN< as a right to live and dwel in favourable ecological conditions,

-proceeding from the 1980 UN General Assembly Resolution "About the Historical Responsability of the Nations for Maintaining ther Nature of the Earth for the Benefit of the Present and Future Generations"

are crrying the underaking about mutual warning of the states and iternational organizations about the potential threat by the ecological balance coming from any of the states.

As a result of interaction of several geopolitical, political, geographical, economical and ecological factors, presently a unique risky ecological situation has developed in Armenia and whole region:

- geographical situation

-- Armenia is located in the North-Eastern part of the Armenian plateau, connecting the Anatolian and Iranian uplands, above which it rises at the height of 500 metres. The ancient geographers called the Armenian plateau "the roof of Small Asia". The geographical location of the republic defines the ecological state of the river network of the region, which includes Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran in the South, Georgia in the North, and the basin of the Kaspian Sea, touching the territories of Turkmenistan, Kazachstan, and Russia (south of Powoljhie)

- economical situation

-- after the collapse of the USSR the territorially small republic of Armenia inherited major industries whose strengths were integrated in the economy of the huge state. As long as their industries were included in the Union ministries, the environmental expenditures and social development of the territory of their location were financed by the centralized fonds, today Armenia is left alone to face big problems in the ecological field, caused by the activities of these industries. But at the same time their functioning is vital from the economical point of view:

- the ecological situation

-- the existing industrial and social infrastructure, in which the environmental measures were financed on the residiual principle, due to which we have inherited a republic with an explosive ecological tention.

Due to the above mentioned factors today we are unable to invest major resources in the modification of technologies, reconstruction of industries and especially close the existing enterprises. All the above mentioned factors have essentially limited the possibility of the nation's life supporting activities and presently the problem of surviving has become the most vital one. We clearly unknowledge the responsibility before our people, the neighbour nations and the world community for the maintainance of the environment and are carrying out activities, aiming to reduce the environmental risk in the region.

The environmental policy, developed by the Parliament of our republic and the whole law making process is based on:

The human right to live in favourable environmental conditiond

- the organic integration of the economic development processes and the environmental needs

- developing principles of the international law

That is why even surviving through the hardest blockaded winter, we did not re-open the coservated unreliable and dangerous atomic power plant. By the opening of the power plant would be an ecological catastrophe for us and for our neighbours. With the severest saving of electricity we did not stop the work of cleaning the equipments in the chemical and metalurgical plants, which their

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