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    Armenia to safely destroy stable organic pollutants - minister

    news.am
    December 12, 2012 | 14:48

    YEREVAN. - Armenia's Minister of Nature Protection, Aram Harutyunyan,
    on Wednesday attended an event entitled `Destruction of expired
    pesticide reserves and disinfection of sites infected with stable
    organic pollutants: Management of save chemicals.'

    To note the aforesaid program is implemented jointly with the Ministry
    of Nature Protection and the United Nations Development Programme
    (UNDP) Armenia Office, the Ministry press service informed.

    In his welcoming remarks at the event, Harutyunyan underscored the
    start of this program in Armenia. `Armenia has assumed very serious
    commitments, and this process continues for long years. Stable organic
    pollutants have a serious impact on human health. There is a need to
    study and design methods to destroy them,' the minister noted.

    Patrice Coeur-Bizot, the UNDP Resident Representative to Armenia,
    likewise attended the event. He, too, expressed his confidence toward
    the successful implementation of this program in Armenia.

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