Armenia attaches importance to cooperation with FAONovember 18, 2009 - 11:27 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Currently in Italy, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan met with Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Dr. Jacques Diouf to discuss a bilateral cooperation-related agenda.PM Sargsyan underscored the need to improve grain, corn, potato seed breeding, pisciculture, cattle stock recording and registration, as well as to introduce a system of agricultural insurance in Armenia. The FAO Director-General said, for his part, that the new cooperation priorities may result in a more efficacious collaboration between the Republic of Armenia and his organization. During the day, the head of government also met with President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Kanayo Nwanze and UN World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director Josette Sheeran. 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 | Scholz hopes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty will be signed this year German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hopes that a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed this year. Ucom equips four bus stops in Ijevan with free Wi-Fi Ucom now provides free Wi-Fi coverage in smart bus stops in four communities of Ijevan. Armenians stage more campaigns against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan Protesters blocked more roads across Armenia on Friday, April 26 in continuing attempts to scuttle territorial concessions to Azerbaijan. Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia. |