VARTAN OSKANIAN MEETS WITH WFP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
YEREVAN, AUGUST 2, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan
Oskanian on August 2 received the Executive Director of the United
Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) James Morris.
According to the RA MFA Press and Information Department, at the
beginning of the meeting, J. Morris briefly presented the activities
of the program on supplying food to those who suffered as a result
of bombing in Lebanon.
V. Oskanian attached importance to the WFP’s activities in Armenia,
underlining the significance of the programs implemented.
J. Morris in his turn expressed a high opinion about the efficient
cooperation between the Armenian government and the WFP and the WFP’s
activities in the region.
At the guest’s request, Minister Oskanian presented the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict settlement process.
Reference: The United Nations’ World Food Program was established in
Armenia in September 1993. The program aims to deal with problems
of Armenian vulnerable groups’ food provision through development
of community infrastructures and human potential. In Armenia, the
program has provided a food assistance to about 200,000 vulnerable
people annually by donating 134,000 tons of various foodstuffs worth
a total of 75 mln USD.