Day: March 28, 2024
The Armenian government will allocate 19 million drams to provide food and medicine to 1.5 million people displaced from Gaza. The decision was approved at the cabinet meeting today.
The humanitarian cargo will include canned food, dry food, medicines, including medicinal solutions and antibiotics.
Additional funds will be allocated to the Ministry of Defense to organize the deliver of the 29.94 tons of aid, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Arpine Sargsyan said.
Referring to the decision, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reminded that he announced the intention to deliver humanitarian aid during his official visit to the Arab Republic of Egypt. According to the Prime Minister, there were problems related to logistics, and there was a need for Egyptian government’s support in delivering humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.
“During the visit, we reached this agreement, because due to the situation, we cannot deliver the cargo directly to the Gaza Strip and deliver it to the beneficiaries. For this reason, we also reached an agreement with the representatives of the Arab Republic of Egypt at the working level,” PM Pashinyan said.
Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Zhanna Andreasyan and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Armenia Olivier Decottignies visited the construction site of the Academic City, the area adjacent to the 17th district of Yerevan.
Accompanying them were Deputy Minister Artur Martirosyan, chairman of the Higher Education and Science Committee Sargis Armenian, the rector of the French University in Armenia Salwa Naccouzi and others.
The Minister of Education emphasized the importance of active participation of interstate universities in the implementation of the Academic City project.
Zhanna Andreasyan briefed the Ambassador on the details of the preliminary master plan of the Academic City. The Minister informed that the full plan of the Academic City is currently in the development and design stage and will be ready in the coming months.
Within the framework of the concept of the project, parallel works are being carried out in the direction of landscape design, road network and necessary infrastructure design. In addition, one of the main goals in the first stage will be the start of the works towards the operation of the railway.
Ambassador Olivier Decottignies and Rector of the French University in Armenia Salwa Naccouzi commended the large-scale works carried out within the framework of the project, labeling it “bold, ambitious and attractive.”
The French side has expressed willingness to consider the agenda of development and expansion of the activity of the French University in Armenia within the framework of the Academic City project.
According to the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, the cooperation with international partner structures will be continuous.
