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TRANSPORT MINISTER AND WORLD BANK YEREVAN OFFICE HEAD DISCUSS $40 MILLION LIFELINE ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
/ ARKA /
June 28
YEREVAN
Armenian transport and communications minister Manuk Vardanyanand
head of World Bank Yerevan Office, Jean-Michel Happi, met today to
discuss a $40 million World Bank-funded Lifeline Road Improvement
Project in Armenia, the press service of the ministry told ARKA.
It also quoted Mr. Happi as saying that the focus is being shifted
now from social projects that were designed to overcome the fallout
from the latest economic crisis to agriculture development projects -
to directing assistance to farms, improvement of irrigation systems
and infrastructure that include also the availability of safe roads.
Highlighting the role of rural roads in the development of agriculture,
minister Vardanian said the ministry has already undertaken a
comprehensive study of roads, especially in terms of building earth
roads to mountainous and remote villages.
The minister also spoke of the need to finance projects designed
for main roads, particularly, about North-South transport corridor
and two highways towards the Georgian border. He said a preliminary
agreement to this end was reached with the World Bank and European
Investment Bank.
The two men were said to have also discussed a variety of issues
on design and application of new road technologies, as well as the
formation of institutional capacity.
The sides also discussed World Bank's assistance for organizing and
conducting a tender to select a concessional operator for Armenian
bus terminals. Happi was quoted as saying that this question was
under discussion at the World Bank.
/ ARKA /
June 28
YEREVAN
Armenian transport and communications minister Manuk Vardanyanand
head of World Bank Yerevan Office, Jean-Michel Happi, met today to
discuss a $40 million World Bank-funded Lifeline Road Improvement
Project in Armenia, the press service of the ministry told ARKA.
It also quoted Mr. Happi as saying that the focus is being shifted
now from social projects that were designed to overcome the fallout
from the latest economic crisis to agriculture development projects -
to directing assistance to farms, improvement of irrigation systems
and infrastructure that include also the availability of safe roads.
Highlighting the role of rural roads in the development of agriculture,
minister Vardanian said the ministry has already undertaken a
comprehensive study of roads, especially in terms of building earth
roads to mountainous and remote villages.
The minister also spoke of the need to finance projects designed
for main roads, particularly, about North-South transport corridor
and two highways towards the Georgian border. He said a preliminary
agreement to this end was reached with the World Bank and European
Investment Bank.
The two men were said to have also discussed a variety of issues
on design and application of new road technologies, as well as the
formation of institutional capacity.
The sides also discussed World Bank's assistance for organizing and
conducting a tender to select a concessional operator for Armenian
bus terminals. Happi was quoted as saying that this question was
under discussion at the World Bank.