FAO PROVIDES ARMENIA WITH $1,8 MILLION IN 2008-2009S

Aysor
May 13 2010
Armenia

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
provided Armenia with total of nearly $1,8 million in 2008-2009, said
organisation’s Director-General Jacques Diouf at the 27th FAO regional
conference for Europe, taking place in Armenian capital of Yerevan. He
said that the FAO is ready to keep on assisting and supporting Armenia.

Armenia’s Minister of Agriculture Gerasim Alaverdian, in his part,
marked the importance of the two-day regional conference in the context
of the approval of the FAO two-year program. Gerasim Alaverdian said
that the FAO had directed $40,000 to Armenia for a burial ground of
pesticides, and is developing a program of establishing of special
laboratories, estimated to cost $2 million.