Armenia Dissusses Expansion Of Cooperation With WB

ARMENIA DISSUSSES EXPANSION OF COOPERATION WITH WB

ARKA
March 27, 2008

YEREVAN, March 27. /ARKA/. RA Minister of Finance and Economy Vardan
Khachatryan held a meeting yesterday with World Bank Country Director
Donna Dowsett-Coirolo, who paid a visit to Armenia.

The press service of the RA Ministry of Finance and Economy reports
that the sides discussed a number of issues of mutual interest.

The sides discussed the implementation of programs of developing
Armenia’s economic sectors.

Giving a high mark to the recent progress in Armenia’s cooperation
with the World Bank, the sides discussed the possibility of launching
new programs of expanding the cooperation.

Since 1992, when Armenia established cooperation with the World Bank,
the latter has allocated a total of $1.1bln under 48 programs. -0–