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The World Environment Day was marked at the Botanical Garden of capital city Yerevan on 5 June. The representatives of the National Assembly and the Government of Armenia, Ambassadors accredited in the Republic of Armenia, heads of international organizations, NGOs and business sector also took part in this event.
Around 50 organizations took part with their pavilions in the exhibition of these environmental achievements, “The preservation of the local nature, the consumption of nature goods in responsible, thought and sustainable manner is very important. Rates of developing world economy and growth of population worldwide leave us with no other opportunity but to use the resources economically. Our task is form environmental thinking with wide layers of population and spreading culture to take care of nature,” said Vache Gabrielyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for International Economic Integration and Reforms.
“Preservation of local nature shall be everyone’s mission, and we shall be conscious of it anywhere and anytime. Preservation of environmental shall have its stable place among fundamental values of our people and become one of the corner stones for the formation of Armenian statehood. The slogan for this year declared by the UN is “Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care”, which once again reminds us that we have no right to waste the limited resources of the nature.
I’m calling for our citizens to combine our efforts in preserving our nature and to pass it to next generations,” said Nature Protection Minister Aramayis Grigoryan in his speech.
“I’m greatly impressed with the devotion that Armenian people have for better environmental future. Armenia seeks to become one of the global leaders in the preservation of environment and stressing out its importance,” said Bradley Busetto, the newly appointed UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Armenia.
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June 05, 2015 at 18:58