ARMENIA ATTACHES IMPORTANCE TO COOPERATION WITH FAO

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
18.11.2009 11:27 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Currently in Italy, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan met with Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General
Dr. Jacques Diouf to discuss a bilateral cooperation-related agenda.

PM Sargsyan underscored the need to improve grain, corn, potato seed
breeding, pisciculture, cattle stock recording and registration,
as well as to introduce a system of agricultural insurance in Armenia.

The FAO Director-General said, for his part, that the new cooperation
priorities may result in a more efficacious collaboration between
the Republic of Armenia and his organization.

During the day, the head of government also met with President of the
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Kanayo Nwanze
and UN World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director Josette Sheeran.