BRITISH DIPLOMAT SAYS YEREVAN A SPORTSMAN WITHOUT LUNGS

Richard Hide, British deputy ambassador to Armenia, has said “Yerevan is like an Olympic sportsman without lungs” in a discussion today on Armenian forests. “Yerevan’s air is polluted,” he said comparing Yerevan with a sportsman that is forced to smoke 10 packs of cigarettes. Unlike Armenia, in Britain candidates include environmental issues in their election campaigns, Hide said.