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RA PRIME MINISTER TIGRAN SARGSYAN RECEIVED UNICEF REPRESENTATIVE IN ARMENIA LEILI MOSHIBI-JILANI.
http://www.gov.am/en/news/item/45 27/
Monday, 23 March 2009
RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received UNICEF representative in
Armenia Leili Moshibi-Jilani.
The Prime Minister expressed high appreciation of UNICEF's more than
15-year-long activities in Armenia which are aimed at protecting
children's rights and improving health and living standards for them.
Tigran Sargsyan noted that bilateral cooperation has some specificity
amidst the ongoing global financial and economic downturn and went on
to stress that the Government has already declared that all welfare
programs, including the ones addressing children's health, education
and safety problems, must be protected in the 2009 State budget law
as much as possible.
Ms. Leili Moshibi-Jilani advised that in cooperation with local
agencies, the UNICEF has designed a new 6-year program for Armenia
due to commence from 2010. Infant and maternity health care, food
security, school and pre-school education for children, child abuse
prevention were mentioned among the key areas addressed by said
program. The Armenian government is expected to assist the UN with
the implementation of program activities. Ms. Moshibi-Jilani further
advised that an international conference is due to be held in Yerevan
with the view of identifying possibilities for the United Nations,
the World Bank,20the IMF and others to support Armenia. The RA Prime
Minister promised to state his approaches in his opening address to
the conference.
The head of the Armenian government called Ms. Moshibi-Jilani's
attention towards the children's status in the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic by noting that the given issue was raised before the Fund as
early as in 2005. He said that children know no frontiers worldwide
and it would be unfair to ignore the needs of any generation wherever
they are.
http://www.gov.am/en/news/item/45 27/
Monday, 23 March 2009
RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received UNICEF representative in
Armenia Leili Moshibi-Jilani.
The Prime Minister expressed high appreciation of UNICEF's more than
15-year-long activities in Armenia which are aimed at protecting
children's rights and improving health and living standards for them.
Tigran Sargsyan noted that bilateral cooperation has some specificity
amidst the ongoing global financial and economic downturn and went on
to stress that the Government has already declared that all welfare
programs, including the ones addressing children's health, education
and safety problems, must be protected in the 2009 State budget law
as much as possible.
Ms. Leili Moshibi-Jilani advised that in cooperation with local
agencies, the UNICEF has designed a new 6-year program for Armenia
due to commence from 2010. Infant and maternity health care, food
security, school and pre-school education for children, child abuse
prevention were mentioned among the key areas addressed by said
program. The Armenian government is expected to assist the UN with
the implementation of program activities. Ms. Moshibi-Jilani further
advised that an international conference is due to be held in Yerevan
with the view of identifying possibilities for the United Nations,
the World Bank,20the IMF and others to support Armenia. The RA Prime
Minister promised to state his approaches in his opening address to
the conference.
The head of the Armenian government called Ms. Moshibi-Jilani's
attention towards the children's status in the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic by noting that the given issue was raised before the Fund as
early as in 2005. He said that children know no frontiers worldwide
and it would be unfair to ignore the needs of any generation wherever
they are.