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Sunday,
October 18

WB Managing Director in Aragatsotn region of Armenia

Today in the frameworks of the regional visit Ms. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
the World Bank Managing Director, arrived to Armenia. The aim of her
visit is to discuss with the respective governments, development
partners and civil society the impact of the financial crisis in the
South Caucasus and to find ways to help ease the crisis and enable
sustainable economic growth.

In Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan Ms. Okonjo-Iweala will meet with
the country leadership, senior government officials, civil society and
private sector representatives, and visit World Bank supported project
sites.

For this very reason at this moment Ms. Okonjo-Iweala is in the
Aragatsotn region.

As the Aysor.am journalist was told by Vigen Sargsyan the head of the
public relations of the WB Yerevan office, the Managing Director is
getting acquainted with the reconstruction and construction in the
Yernjatap village financed by the bank. The next stop will be in
Vardenut and Ara villages which in the frameworks of the program of
improving the village roads. Then they will for Aghdzq region. After
which they will leave for Voskevan and will visit to `Ashtarak egg’
enterprise where the technologies are renovated and new workplaces
have been opened.

17.10.2009, 16:08

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