During a meeting with Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Juan Carlos Lentijo, Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of Armenia Suren Papikyan discussed the IAEA’s current and future technical assistance programs to increase the physical protection and safety of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant.

The interlocutors touched upon the results of the IAEA’s missions to Armenia. Attaching importance to the ensuring of continuity of those missions, Papikyan offered to increase the support programs targeted at the increase of safety of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant.

Issues related to the plan for extension of the period of planned exploitation of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant, as well as increase of safety of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant were discussed during the meeting.