UNO TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAMS DIRECTED AT DEVELOPMENT OF ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan
Jul 12 2007
YEREVAN, JULY 12, NOYAN TAPAN. The departments envisaged by the program
of the forthcoming five years of the government of the Republic of
Armenia are in full harmony with the primary points mentioned by
the United Nations’ Organization, which opens wide opportunities for
further cooperation between the RA Government and the UN agencies,
which operate in the Republic of Armenia. This statement was made
by Consuelo Vidal, the permanent coordinator of the United Nations’
Organization and a permanent representative of the UN Development
Program in Armenia, during the meeting with Serge Sargsian, the RA
Prime Minister, which took place on July 11.
Serge Sargsian appreciated the activities of the UN agencies and
the Development Program, in particular, as well as the productive
interactivities of the Armenian office of this organization with
the RA government. The Prime Minister mentioned that the Armenian
government is going to reconsider the Poverty Reduction Strategic
Paper, within the framework of which he expects a deeper and more
active cooperation with the United Nations’ Organization, taking into
consideration the fact that the problem of poverty reduction has
been and still is one of the most important goals of the Millenium
Development proclaimed by the UNO. Serge Sargsian attached importance
to the implementation of wide discussions during the reconsideration
process of the Poverty Reduction Strategic Paper and stressed that
the paper should be so definite and grounded that its implementation
becomes quite realistic. According to the Prime Minister, this will
increase the confidence of society towards this paper.
The RA Prime Minister stressed the necessity to unite efforts with
regard to the implementation of the provisions of the most important
and principle documents for the Republic of Armenia, that is to say,
the Program of the RA Government, the RA Strategic Program of National
Security, and the Poverty Reduction Strategic Paper, and added that
any document to be adopted by the government should be in harmony
with the goals of the above-mentioned programs.
According to the information provided to Noyan Tapan by the Information
and Public Relations’ Department of the RA government, Consuelo Vidal
made assertions that the United Nations’ Organization, as an associate
of the RA government, will be happy to continue the cooperation within
the frameworks of the above-mentioned documents and the assistance
for the implementation of the programs directed at the development
of the country.