YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Edward Nalbandian on Wednesday received Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). 

Nalbandian stressed that Armenia greatly underscores the need to develop its ties and cooperation with the IAEA, also considering this as the most important component of Armenia’s energy and nuclear safety, MFA informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.   

He also recalled President Serzh Sargsyan’s participation in the Nuclear Safety Summit, which was held in Seoul in March.

In his turn, Yukiya Amano noted that the IAEA gives emphasis to cooperation with Armenia, and he deemed this cooperation as quite effective.   

The interlocutors discussed the Armenia-IAEA cooperation and nuclear safety matters. In this context, Edward Nalbandian noted that Armenia, as a country with nuclear technology, has joined several international documents which regulate this domain, and, also, the EU’s risk assessment testing of nuclear power plants.