TRACECA Intergovernmental Commission 5th Conference Scheduled in Sofia May 2April 4, 2006 - 19:33 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijan and Armenia will not be nominated for presiding the General Secretariat of the TRACECA Intergovernmental Commission for the next year. This is due to the sides voting against each other during the election of the Secretary General, TRACECA National Secretary in Azerbaijan Akif Mustafayev informed. Mr. Mustafayev said that the 5th conference of the TRACECA Intergovernmental Commission scheduled in Sofia (Bulgaria) in early April was postponed till May 2. According to Mr. Mustafayev, a meeting of the TRACECA national secretaries will be held on May 1 and the issues included in the agenda of the conference will be reviewed there for the last time. "Reports will be made at the conference and we also plan to deliver a speech there. Besides, execution of the decisions adopted at the 4th conference will be heard. Approval of the TRACECA development strategy up to 2015, reformation of the organization into an international organization, projects planned for 2006 will be discussed and the general secretary and chairman will be elected", Mustafayev stressed. To note, TRACECA is currently chaired by Azerbaijan, while next year Bulgaria will preside the organization, APA reports. Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion. Partner news | Concept to complete Yerevan Cascade discussed at city hall A conceptual proposal to complete the Cascade complex in downtown Yerevan has been presented by Jean-Michel Wilmotte. Pashinyan visits flood-hit region Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Saturday, June 8 visited the disaster area in the Lori province. €3.5 mln EU grant to support justice reforms in Armenia The European Union has paid €3.5 mln grant to Armenia within a €11mln program on Support to Justice Reforms. Yerevan reacts to Baku’s proposal to see Minsk Group abolition Alen Simonyan has declared that Armenia is taking steps aimed at concluding a peace treaty with Azerbaijan. |