Yerevan to host European Business Congress Committee meetingApril 16, 2010 - 15:29 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The European Business Congress (EBC) Committee will hold a meeting on management of energy companies’ expenditures in Yerevan on April 20, the press service of ArmRosGazprom CJSC reported. The event will bring together representatives of gas, energy, financial, banking sectors, including Gasprom OJSC, Overgas, NPF Gazfond, NIIgazeconomika LLC, Zapsigbaz CJSC, BelGasprombank OJSC, NGCC, Calyon Rusbank, BNP PARIBAS, Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Deutsche Bank, Comerzbank, Ingbank, Comita, KPMG, BDO, UBS, SIGESSE s.a., PricewaterhouseCoopers. Chairman of the Board and CEO of ArmRosGazprom CJSC Karen Karapetyan will make opening remarks. Andrey Kruglov, Vice-Chairman of the Board and Head of the Financial and Economic Department of Gazprom OJSC, Member of the EBC Bureau, Chairman of the Committee on Legislation, Banks and Finance, will summarize the results of the EBC Committee meeting. The European Business Congress The European Business Congress is an international non-governmental, non-profit organization (NGNPO), founded in December 1997 in Bonn, Germany. The EBC is headquartered in Berlin; it has 97 members from 21 OSCE member states. 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. |