Armenia’s Minister of Environment Romanos Petrosyan today received Ambassador of the Russian Federation Sergey Kopirkin. Among the attendees of the meeting were Deputy Minister Mazmanyan and Head of the Department of International Cooperation Mr. Grigoryan.

Greeting the guests, Minister Petrosyan talked about the longstanding strategic relations between the two countries in politics and public administration and stated the importance of a new agenda for cooperation in the post-war era. In his turn, Ambassador Kopirkin attached importance to the cooperation between the two countries and informed that Russia is interested in expanding the spheres of partnership and the scopes of implementation of joint projects.

Minister Petrosyan informed the Ambassador that he has invited Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation to Armenia to draw up a detailed roadmap for cooperation, boost the sector-specific cooperation between the two countries’ government agencies and raise the cooperation to a new level.

The parties discussed the memorandum of cooperation signed between the ministries of both countries in the field of environmental protection in 2016. The deputy minister called the interlocutors’ attention to the “10 million” large-scale tree-planting project and the reforms launched in the forest management sector and looked forward to more advanced cooperation in order to record more significant results.