YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 4, NOYAN TAPAN. 16 families, living at present in the hostel in the address of Moldovakan 70, Yerevan, were given on September 1 certificates for buying flats, at the cost of 6 mln 511 thousand drams each (about 16.3 thousand U.S. dollars). Before the ceremony of giving the certificates, Aram Haroutiunian, the RA Minister of Urban Development mentioned that as it was in 2005, the process of giving certificates for buying flats starts with inhabitants of the mentioned hostel this year as well: they were given 20 certificates for buying flats in 2005, 19 of which were used. In total, 590 certificates for buying flats were given in 2005, 360 of which were used. A.Haroutiunian also mentioned that mechanisms of work of those implementing the program on giving certificates for buying flats, the RA Ministry of Urban Development, the State Committee on Real Estate Land-Survey attached to the RA Government, the Migration Department of the RA Ministry of Territorial Administration and local self-government bodies, will be more definied, in the sense of beneficiaries and flat surfaces, terms of using the certificates for buying flats. Gagik Yeganian, the Migration Department Chief reminded that the RA Government made the decision on implementing the program on giving certificates for buying flats in 2004 and undertook by it the responsibility of providing with flats more than 3.5 thousand of needy families. The total cost of the program, which solves the program of integrating refugees to the society, is 25 mln dollars. In G.Yeganian's words, the issue of giving certificates for buying flats to families living in temporary residences in the marz of Kotayk, and the program will be implemented in future in the direction of solving the dwelling problem of most needy families living in Yerevan.

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