NINE ARMENIAN TOWNS HAVE SISTER-TOWN AGREEMENTS WITH 27 TOWNS

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 10, ARMENPRESS:Nine Armenian towns have sister-town agreements with 27 towns of different countries of the world. An official from the Territorial Governance Administration Ministry press department told Armenpress that Yerevan has 16 sister-towns. Sister-town agreement with Italian Karara town was signed in 1973 and with Madagascar’s Antananarivo in 1981. Yerevan’s sister-towns are Cambridge, Odessa, Tbilisi, Damascus, Kishinev, Beirut, Bratislava, Ispahan, Montreal, San Paulo, Rostov-on-Don, Los Angeles, Nice, Marseilles. Gyumri has sister-town agreements with Alexandria (USA), Thessaloniki (Greece) and Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Artik has agreements with Vio Viel (France), Artashat with Klamar (France), Alaverdi with Kabuleti (Georgia) and St. Ioanirenti (Greece), Sevan with Grenoble (France), Vardenis with Roman (France), Gavar with Novorossiysk, Jermuk with San Rafaelo (France). According to the same source, with the memorandum of mutual understanding signed at the 8th session of Armenian-Iranian inter-governmental commission Syunik’s Meghri, Kapan and Iran’s Joulfa and Marand have been declared sister-towns.