ATTENTION TO AGRICULTURE
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| 15:16:57 | 14-09-2005 | Politics |
Today in New York UN General Assembly 60th session high-level meeting
started. Heads of Governments of more than 170 countries participate
in the summit, including the RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan.
On September 13 Andranik Margaryan met the «Millennium Challenges
Corporation» (MCC) heads temporary executive director Charles Setnes
and deputy head of the Countries’ Program John Hugo. During the
meeting issues about cooperation with the MCC have been discussed.
The sides have expressed their pleasure with the cooperation of the
working groups. The MCC has expressed its approval of the Millennium
Challenges Armenian draft program represented by the RA Government.
During the meeting the RA Prime Minster mentioned that special
attention must be paid to agriculture, especially to farms. The
representative of MCC found the provision of transparency in the works
of the MCC governing council extremely important. He mentioned that
with that aim representatives of non-governmental organizations and
civil society must be included in the Council.
In this concern the Prime Minister mentioned that the RA Government is
for transparency of processes, and the choice of the above mentioned
organizations can be realized by joint efforts of the representatives
of MCC and non-governmental organizations and civil society.
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress