Armenia, KfW bank discuss water supply to 570 villagesFebruary 9, 2016 - 12:31 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The chairman of the Armenian State Water Resources Committee Aram Harutyunyan and Zara Chatinyan from the Yerevan office of the German KfW bank discussed Monday, February 8, water supply problems in the Armenian communities. The Committee said in a press release that they also examined a set of issues concerning the second stage of a community infrastructure program. Particularly, they looked into the problem of water supply to 570 rural communities across the country. Besides, they dwelled on a possible establishment of a unit within the Committee for property management, investments and independent audits. Also, the parties discussed the upcoming tender for the selection of a single operator for the drinking water supply, KfW’s assistance as well as strategic projects to develop this sector, ARKA reports. 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. |