FRENCH PROVINCE OF VENDEE TO SUPPORT ARMENIA IN SPHERES OF VILLAGE
TOURISM, AGRICULTURAL RECULTIVATING AND STUDENTS’ RETRAINING
YEREVAN, MAY 25, NOYAN TAPAN. During the visit of the delegation of
the French province of Vendee to Armenia (May 20-25), development
programs of village tourism, recultivating of agricultural products
and student’s retraining were discussed. Doninique Souchet, the
General Councelor, President of the Commission of the International
Cooperation Action in the spheres of culture, economy and tourism
announced about it during the May 24 press conference. The visit was
organized by the Armenian Development Agency together the
Franco-Armenian Gi2A organization. According to D.Souchet, Armenia has
a great potential to develop the village tourism, and the French
province of Vendee which receives 5 million tourists annually (the
second index in France) will support its implementation. As he stated,
the province which is also a leader in the agricultural recultivation
field has undertaken the readiness of supporting the Armenian
enterprises recultivating beef and poultry. It was mentioned that
already starting this year, the students of the French University in
Armenia will be retrained in big enterprises of Vendee. According to
D. Souchet, the enterpreneurs of the province can get acquainted with
the pecuilarities of the Armenian markets and markets of other CIS
countries by associating with the Armenian students. According to
D.Souchet, programs of economic cooperation between Armenia and Vendee
as well as programs of possible investments of the enterpreneurs of
that French province in Armenia will be discussed during the planned
mutual visits, exhibitions of productions of both sides in Vendee and
Armenia and during the business forums. As he states, in Vendee the
first exhibition of Armenian products is planned to be organized
during Year of Armenia in France.