Politics
Armenia and the French Development Agency will cooperate in reservoir construction, irrigation, energy, and agriculture.
RA Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan received the French delegation, which included French Ambassador to Armenia Olivier Decotigny, Regional Director of the French Development Agency in the South Caucasus (FDA) Fanny Delpey, and other officials.
The Minister of Finance referred to the practical cooperation of the previous year in the framework of the budget support between the FSA and the Ministry of Finance and emphasized the ongoing work to ensure the project's continuity.
The parties also discussed the perspectives of several cooperative issues, particularly in reservoir construction, irrigation, energy, and agriculture. Reference was also made to assistance in solving the problems of people forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh. In his speech, Ambassador Decotigny attached particular importance to the Vedu Reservoir project, one of the bright examples of practical cooperation between the parties.
Minister Hovhannisyan noted that the Armenian side is interested in studying the French experience of irrigation and land resources management, which can be another significant direction of cooperation between the parties.
At the meeting, the parties both highly appreciated the level of existing partnership relations and emphasized that, in the current conditions, it provides a reasonable basis for deepening cooperation in all directions.
