Tigran Sargsyan, Henri Reynaud discuss expansion of Armenian-French economic tiesDecember 3, 2010 - 20:21 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received newly appointed French Ambassador to Armenia Henri Reynaud to discuss directions for expanding the bilateral economic ties. Specifically, attraction of French companies to the fields of postal services provision, insurance, energy, information technologies, agriculture, wine making, pharmaceutics and perfume production was considered to be promising. Henri Reynaud noted that France is the leader in Europe by investments in Armenia, what is an evidence of a serious progress recorded in all fields of economic cooperation. At the guest’s request, the Armenian Prime Minister briefed on Armenia’s model of economic development and priority directions of the economic policy, the RA governmental press service reported. 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 | Russian Ambassador to Armenia summoned to Moscow for consultations Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergei Kopyrkin has been summoned to Moscow for consultations. Azerbaijan says now controls 4 villages as part of deal with Armenia Azerbaijan's border service has taken control of four villages in the Gazakh district on the border with Armenia. Lukashenko has "very interesting proposal" involving Caucasus Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has said he has "a very interesting proposal" involving the Caucasus region. Azerbaijan establishing three military colleges Three military colleges are being established in Azerbaijan, according to a decree signed by the country’s Prime Minister Ali Asadov. |