On March 5, Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan received the delegation led by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Armenia Jonathan Lacote, which included the advisor on nuclear energy, Alexander Gorbachev, representative of the French Nuclear Energy Commission, and representatives of the French ORANO (formerly AREVA) company.

Acting Minister of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources Garegin Baghramyan was also present at the meeting.

The interlocutors discussed the possibilities of deepening the Armenian-French cooperation in the field of nuclear energy. In this regard, the Deputy Prime Minister said that Armenia values ​​the role of the Metsamor nuclear power plant in the country’s energy production capacity and will continue to develop nuclear energy. He also added that the issues of building a new nuclear power plant in the future and involving foreign partners in this project are now being studied.

The parties agreed to study the possibilities of cooperation in the field of nuclear energy, particularly in the directions of production, research and development, professional exchanges and educational programs.