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RA Nature Protection Minister Artsvik Minasyan held a working discussion on handing Aarhus Centers of environmental information operating in Armenia to state administration, as Information and Public Relations Department of RA Nature Protection Ministry informs.
Gohar Ghazinyan, Environmental Programmes Officer at the OSCE Office in Yerevan, presented Aarhus Center formation process and performed works. In 2002 in the frames of the MOU signed with RA Nature Protection Ministry the OSCE Office in Yerevan established the Yerevan Aarhus Center, which was followed with the establishment of another 14 centers in the regions of Armenia. Attaching value to the continuity of the works of the centers and increase in expediency the mechanisms of handing Aarhus Centers to state administration was discussed at the meeting, which is prescribed in the bilateral memorandum.
As a result of the discussion a decision was reached to develop a new memorandum on RA Nature Protection Ministry and the OSCE in Office Yerevan to specify the new status of the Aarhus Centers.
December 28, 2016 at 17:38