Lithuania President suggests conducting stress test at Armenian NPP May 4, 2011 - 17:48 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Within the framework of her visit to Yerevan, the President of OSCE-chairing Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite discussed conducting of a stress test at Armenian NPP. The idea was triggered by recent disaster at Japan’s Fukushima power plant. “Europe is striving to provide high nuclear safety standards. The test initiated at all European NPPs will increase security measures, also strengthening trust between the countries,” she noted. “As it was made clear during the discussion of the issue, Armenia is also ready for a stress test,” Lithuania President said. Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |