YEREVAN, March 14. / ARKA /. Armenian Converse Bank said today it has issued special Master Card Woman’s Cards on the occasion of March 8 International Women’s Day and Armenia’s Motherhood and Beauty Day marked April 7. The time span between these two holidays is referred to as “Women’s Month.’

Speaking at a news conference Converse Bank executive director Tigran Davtian said the plastic cards are available only to females and are the first in their kind in Armenia.

He said the card holders will be entitled to a long list of discounts in as many as 300 trade and services outlets and stores. All holders of Woman’s Card will be offered also free Internet banking.

To get the new card females should visit either the head office or any of the bank’s branches. The amounts on credit or debit cards may be either in Drams, US Dollars or Euros, Tigran Davtian said. He said also 50 women have already acquired the new card and the bank plans to issue no less than 5,000 such cards.

Nina Wilems from Master Card said a similar product is quite successful in France. Aren Apikian, head of retail services division, said Converse Bank will expand the number of stores and outlets which offer additional discounts to Women’s Card holders,

Some 95% in Converse Bank is held by an Argentinean-Armenian businessman Eduardo Eurnekian. The remaining 5% is owned by Armenian Apostolic Church . The bank operates 28 branches. ($1- 367. 85 Drams). -0-