COOPERATION AGREEMENT SIGNED BETWEEN RA MINISTRY OF NATURE PROTECTION AND GUNP
Noyan Tapan
Mar 06 2007
YEREVAN, MARCH 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA Minister of Nature Protection
Vardan Aivazian and the Head of the German Union for Nature
Preservation (GUNP) Leif Miller on March 6 signed an agreement on
cooperation. According to V. Aivazian, the GUNP’s willingness to
cooperate will encourage a new stage of Armenian-German cooperation in
environmental protection. He stated that such problems as presevation
of Armenian mouflon, fight against poaching, ecotourism development and
preservation of water and marsh areas in Ararat Valley are today on the
agenda. Leif Miller said that 26 thousand euros will be allocated for
the program on Armenian mouflon’s preservation and 15 thousand euros
– for preservation of water and marsh areas in Ararat Valley. In the
words of the German Amabassdor to Armenia Ms. Heike Renate Peitsch,
environmental problems do not recognize national borders and can
be solved only in cooperation with neighboring countries. "This
is a sphere where Armenia can establish efficient cooperation with
neighboring Georgia and Azerbaijan," she stated. It was noted that a
summit on the UN Biodiversity Convention will be held in Germany in
2008, and the GUNP will assist the RA ministry of nature protection
with preparing for this event.