RA PM to participate in Armenian-Russian intergovernmental committee meeting in YekaterinburgOctober 22, 2010 - 13:57 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - On October 22, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan will leave for Yekaterinburg on a two-day working visit to participate in the 12th sitting of the Armenian-Russian intergovernmental committee on economic cooperation. The Armenian delegation will include Chief of the Government Staff David Sargsyan, Minister of Finance Tigran Davtyan, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Armen Movsisyan, First Deputy Minister of Economy Karine Minasyan, First Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration Vache Terteryan, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture Samvel Avetisyan, Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan, Deputy Minister of Transport and Communication Artashes Avetisyan, Deputy Minister of Education and Science Ara Avetisyan, Deputy Minister of Culture Arthur Poghosyan, Deputy Minister of Diaspora Stepan Petrosyan, Deputy Minister of Urban Development Ruzan Alaverdyan, Governor of Armavir region Ashot Ghahramanyan and other officials, the governmental press service reported. 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 | Get Started: An educational platform for young startuppers The Get Started program which operates in two phases is an important platform for young startuppers. Byblos Bank Armenia celebrates Students' Day with scholarship recipients YSU students who received scholarships from Byblos Bank Armenia gathered in a casual setting to meet with the Bank's CEO, Hayk Stepanyan. Azerbaijan extends Rune Vardanyan’s arrest by 5 months A court in Azerbaijan has extended the arrest of former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan by five months. Armenia border residents dissatisfied with delimitation Residents Kirants are dissatisfied with the results of the delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. |