Armenia, Russia discuss joint project on developing uranium deposits

Armenia, Russia discuss joint project on developing Armenian uranium
deposits

RIA Novosti, Moscow
29 Jun 07

Yerevan, 29 June: Armenia’s Environmental Protection Minister Aram
Harutyunyan, Tekhsnabeksport deputy director-general Vladimir Servetnik
and the deputy director-general of Russia’s chemical technology
institute, Harutyun Poghosyan, discussed projects on the development of
Armenia’s uranium deposits in Yerevan on Friday [29 June], the public
relations department of the Environmental Protection Ministry has told
Novosti Armenia.

The Russian representatives informed the minister of the work done
under a protocol on cooperation in geological survey, extraction and
processing of uranium ore. The protocol was signed in Yerevan in April
2007 between [Russia’s] Rosatom and the Armenian Ministry of
Environmental Protection.

[Passage omitted: background]

The sides expressed satisfaction with the work completed so far and the
coordinated cooperation. They said that the action plan was being
implemented timely.

[Passage omitted: background]

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