ARMENIA JOINS CONVENTION ON THE CONSERVATION OF EUROPEAN WILDLIFE AND NATURAL HABITATS

Noyan Tapan
Mar 14 2006

YEREVAN, MARCH 14, NOYAN TAPAN. The official ceremony of the RA signing
the 1979 Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife
and Natural Habitats of the Council of Europe took place on March
13. Ambassador Christian Ter-Stepanian, the RA Permanent Representative
to the Council of Europe signed the convention from the Armenian side,
and Gianni Buquicchio, the Deputy Secretary General of the Council
of Europe singed it from the side of the Council of Europe. As Noyan
Tapan was informed by the RA Foreign Ministry’s Press and Information
Department, so Armenia has become the 46th member state of the Bern
Convention. The convention is called to control the protection of
the wild nature and the nature environment, especially in the cases
of danger of liquidation. Besides the member states of the Council
of Europe, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia and Burkina Faso as well as the
European community are the members of the Convention.