Economy Minister and WB representatives discussed tourism infrastructures improvement program

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Armenian Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan received today Tawadzwa Irwin Dube, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist at the World Bank and Nora Mirzoyan, World Bank Urban Planning Specialist.

Economy Minister and WB representatives discussed tourism infrastructures improvement program

YEREVAN, September 7. /ARKA/. Armenian Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan received today Tawadzwa Irwin Dube, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist at the World Bank and Nora Mirzoyan, World Bank Urban Planning Specialist. The head of the Tourism Committee Sisian Poghosean also attended the meeting.

According to the press service of the Ministry of Economy, the sides discussed a World-Bank-proposed program to improve tourism and regional infrastructure.

The interlocutors touched upon the conditions and possible terms of the program implementation, the work envisaged within its framework in order to ensure the efficiency of the program. -0--

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