06 07 03 - ARMENIA GETS FROM INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC TECHNICAL CENTER 5 NEW PROJECTS OF 2 MLN DOLLARS

YEREVAN, JUNE 30, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenia got 5 of the 30 new projects affirmed by the heading council of the International Scientific-Technical Center. The total sum of the latters made 1 mln 480 thousand U.S. dollars and 515 thousand evros.

The council sitting in which 11 sides, including from the Council of Europe, Canada, Russia, U.S. and Japan, participated, was held in Yerevan on June 25-29. Armenia occupied in the heading council a rotation place in the CIS staff. That place will be given to Georgia in 2007.

As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA NAS Information Service, the total sum of financing the new projects made 4.8 mln U.S. dollars and 3.1 evros. Besides Armenia, projects will be implemented in Russia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrghyzstan.

The International Scientific-Technical Center has financed 123 projects of total value of 25 mln dollars since 1994.

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