YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 9, NOYAN TAPAN. National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamian received Aristomene Varoudakis, Head of World Bank (WB) office in Armenia on September 8. According to the RA NA Public Relations department, NA Speaker highly estimated WB's cooperation with Armenian authorities and expressed willingness of NA to support that cooperation. In that context, he attached importance to the control activities of the parliament reserved by the RA Constitution, particularly, effective use of credits allocated to Armenia for country's economy. During the meeting, the interlocutors discussed issues concerning world financial-economic crisis and its impact on Armenia's economy. They also touched upon prospects of possible cooperation with the World Bank support in the sphere of developing parliament's professional and technical abilities. NA Vice-Speaker Arevik Petrosian also took part in the meeting.

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