Joint Armenia-Turkey Water Commission meets in Yerevan on May 21

The first meeting of the Armenia-Turkey Commission on the joint use of the Akhuryan and Araks rivers was held in Yerevan, Armenia’s Water Committee reported on Thursday.

The meeting began at the Armenia-Turkey border checkpoint and later moved to the Jrar, Inc. facilities, which is a subsidiary of the Territorial Administration Ministry.

According to a statement, the meeting addressed the management of the operation of the Sardarabad water regulator and the Akhuryan reservoir.

Tigran Vardanyan, Director of Jrar, said that the signed documents were drawn up on mutually beneficial terms. A number of important agreements were reached during the meeting, the statement said.

No other details were publicized.

At the end of last month, the joint task force to revitalize the operation of the Gyumri-Kars Railway met in Kars.

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