Armenia and Iran to resume joint monitoring of border River of Araks- minister

YEREVAN, November 2. /ARKA/. Armenia and Iran will resume joint monitoring of the border Araks River, Environment Minister Hakob Simidyan said on Thursday.

"The Araks River is polluted not in Armenian Armavir or Meghri, but in other sections," Simidyan said at a parliamentary discussion on the draft state budget for 2024.

The minister said the joint monitoring will reveal where exactly the rive is being polluted. 

"The monitoring is delayed, but now, after all the necessary preparations, we and our Iranian colleagues are ready to start it," the minister said.

He noted that international cooperation with Iranian partners is of key importance for the Armenian side. Simidyan said two of his three working trips abroad since the beginning of the year were to Iran.

The Araks River starts in eastern Turkey and flows along the borders between Turkey and Armenia, between Turkey and the Nakhichevan exclave of Azerbaijan, between Iran and both Azerbaijan and Armenia, and, finally, through Azerbaijan where it flows into the Kura River which flows into the Caspian Sea.-0-