PAN PLAN intends to implement transport-safety programs in Armenia

PanARMENIAN.Net - For over a decade, Mr. Rainer Stepan of the City Administration of Vienna has been eagerly and constantly pursuing tireless efforts and targeted lobbying for the intensification of development and business cooperation venues between Austria and Armenia. Accordingly, besides involving several Austrian consulting groups and companies, a number of projects were also launched during these past ten years.



One such recent successful initiative was the carrying out of a basic study by the Austrian PAN PLAN regarding transport-safety in Armenia, as assigned by AustriaTech, a company specialised in transport issues, telematics and know-how transfer.



Together with a team of local Armenian experts, this special report was finalised and satisfyingly presented in early May 2009.

Based on the results of the assessed options and needs, AustriaTech decided spontaneously to continue its efforts with a cooperation offer to the responsible authorities in Armenia.

Therefore, a working group will visit Armenia at the end of June 2009 to define further steps for a sustainable programme towards the steady increase of transport-safety in Armenia.



As a result of a number of successfully undertaken past Austrian initiatives in Armenia, the Austrian Control Bank (Oesterreichische Kontrollbank) has now declared their preparedness to give Armenia such a ranking status, which would enable the Austrian partners to launch soft loaned, non-commercial projects in Armenia. This could be a pioneer initiative by a foreign international financing institution for Armenia.



Taking into account the fact that the field of "Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency" represents one of the major focused areas of the Armenian Government, it is certainly a sound and instrumental consideration to provide this opportunity to a relevant Armenian institution.