REPRESENTATIVES OF COUNTRIES FOUNDED CAUCASIAN REGIONAL ECOLOGICAL CENTER MET IN BRUSSELS

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 12. ARMINFO. The meeting of representatives of
Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and the ES, the countries founded the
Caucasian regional ecological center, took place in Brussels on
February 8-9, 2005. Deputy minister for ecology Samvel Papyan headed
the Armenian delegation there.

As ARMINFO was informed in the press-service of Armenia’s Foreign
Ministry, the members of the meeting were acquainted with the results
of five-year work and determined the key directions of both the
further activity and the co-operation sphere. Issues on the center’s
activity and implementation of measures for effectiveness increase
were discussed, too. Papyan in his speech noted the necessity of
regional co-operation in the sphere of ecology and proposed to create a
work-group, which will prepare a reform package on center’s structures
and present it at the next meeting in the summer of 2004. The meeting
participants discussed a possibility of combination of the new European
neighboring policy with the center’s activity, as well as a possible
involving of private enterprises in the implementation of the regional
ecological programs. -r-