ON FEBRUARY 27 RA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RATIFIES 7 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS

Noyan Tapan
Feb 27 2007

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 27, NOYAN TAPAN. At the February 27 morning sitting
RA National Assembly ratified 7 international agreements introduced by
RA President. Three of them are bilateral agreements on encouragement
of investments and mutual defence signed in Yerevan between RA
government and governments of Latvia, Lithuania and Finland. The
parliament also ratified: – the agreement "On Cooperation between RA
Ministry of Culture and Youth Affairs and Kyrghyzstan’s Ministry of
Education, Science and Youth Policy on Cooperation in the Sphere of
Youth Policy" signed on April 28, 2006 in Yerevan, – the Geneva Act of
Hague agreement "On International Registration of Industrial Specimens"
signed on July 2, 1999 in Geneva, – Locarno agreement establishing
classification of industrial specimens adopted on October 8, 1968 in
Locarno and changed on September 28, 1979, – the agreement of Loan
of Industrial Infrastructures Restoration Program signed on June 17,
2007 between the Republic of Armenia and International Development
OPEC Fund. By the latter the International Development Fund of
the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will
provide 10 mln USD to RA as a loan for implementation of Industrial
Infrastuctures Restoration Program. The goal of the program is to
restore necessary infrastructures aimed at improving efficiency
of production of agriculture and cattle-breeding in Armenian rural
areas. The sum of the loan is subject to paying in 2012-2026 by 30
half-yearly payments.