REPRESENTATIVES OF ROSATOM VISIT YEREVAN

arminfo
2007-06-29 20:17:00

Today Armenian Ecology Minister Aram Haroutyunyan met with Deputy
Director of All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics of
the Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy of Russia Haroutyun Pogossyan
and Deputy Director of Techsnabexport company Vladimir Servetnik.

The Ecology Ministry of Armenia reports that the guests presented
their plan of action for 2007 under the agreement on uranium deposit
development in Armenia. Techsnabexport exports products and services
produced by Rosatom companies and imports modern technologies and
medical and other equipment.

That company provides full range of products and services of the
nuclear fuel cycle.

The Ministry does not give the details of the talks. They just say
that the cooperation is developing according to the schedule.

To remind, during the recent visit of head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko
to Armenia the Armenian authorities expressed wish to take part in the
international uranium enrichment center project in Angarsk. Kiriyenko
said that Armenia may have 1.5-2 times more uranium than reported
during the Soviet times. The country’s confirmed reserves total
60,000 tons. Meanwhile, the Russian side is ready to invest in uranium
prospecting as much as necessary. Uranium mining in Armenia will be
started in 2008. The Russian side is also ready to take part in the
constitution of a new NPP in Armenia.