ARMENIA JOINS EUROCONTROL ON MARCH 1

Noyan Tapan
Mar 07 2006

YEREVAN, MARCH 7, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenia became the 36th member state
of Eurocontrol on March 1. NT was informed about it from the RA MFA
Press and Information Department.

Becoming a member of the International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO) in 1922, Armenia joined the International Civil Aviation
Union. Armenia was the first one of the former Soviet republics to
join the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) in 1996. Since
that time, Armenia has received ECAC technical assistance.

Armenia has developed jointly with Eurocontrol a program on
modernization of its air traffic management services. Armenian experts
have been sent to the Eurocontrol Office for this purpose.

According to Eurocontrol’s Director General Victor Aguago, Armenia’s
joining the Eurocontrol is one of the most welcome developments which
is fully in line with the programs aimed at developing the European
Air Management System.

He attached importance to this step in terms of creation of new
airways in the region in European and Far East destinations.

Eurocontrol is a European organization on air traffic safety, whose
main purpose is to develop the European Air Traffic Management System
under current conditions of air traffic growth.