Armenia’s Asbestos Problem: Government Continues Using Carcinogen Despite Global Ban

https://hetq.am/en/article/168567

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  1. Typical_Effect_9054 on

    Covered by David but separate thread to highlight it & for those who missed it.

  2. pride_of_artaxias on

    >In Armenia, Kavashen LLC produces corrugated asbestos roof slated in the city of Ararat. Aram Sargsyan, leader of the country’s Republic party and a former prime minister, owns 23% of the company’s shares.  

    >Sargsyan, who supports Armenia’s membership in the European Union, may be surprised to learn that all twenty-seven members of the economic and pollical union banned the use of asbestos in 2005. Then again, maybe he just neglects this fact in favor of company profits.

    Nothing in this passage surprised me.