YEREVAN. – The Nature Protection Ministry of Armenia has mapped six environmental corridors in the border areas of Meghri city, “EcoLur” NGO reports.

Within the framework of the Friendship and Peace Park process established between Armenia and Iran, it is planned to separate the migration routes and set proper protection procedures, which will ensure the proper migration of animals.

Nature Protection Minister Aram Harutyunyan stated the aforesaid at an event held on the occasion of the National Day of the Islamic Republic of Iran, informs the Ministry Information and Public Relations Department.

As reported earlier, during his official visit to Iran, Aram Harutyunyan met with Ms. Masoumeh Ebtekar, Vice President of Iran and head of Iran’s Environmental Protection Organization. They discussed the cooperation between both countries on environmental issues, and their future plans. The parties recorded that relations between the two countries have strengthened with respect to environment protection, and that the process has begun for creating the Friendship and Peace Park on the common border of the two states.

Aram Harutyunyan also met with Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian of Iran. The interlocutors discussed the prospects for alternative energy development in Armenia and in Iran, and the pollution issue of the Araks River which flows between the two countries.

Next, Armenia’s nature protection minister met with Mohammad-Reza Tabesh, head of the environmental protection group at the Iranian parliament. They exchanged views on the legislative mechanisms toward solving environmental issues.