YEREVAN, DECEMBER 8, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian prime minister Tigran Sargsyan on December 8 received the director of the World Bank Armenia Office Aristomene Varudakis, the director of the Foreign Investment Advisory Services (FIAS) Karin Millett, experts of the WB and FIAS. The final report on studies and assessment conducted by FIAS at the suggestion of WB was presented at the meeting. The report is related to the activities of the Armenian Development Agency (ADA), raising the efficiency of its work from the institutional point of view, and its further steps. The World Bank starts to implement a new 2 million-dollar technical assistance program with ADA (with a grant of the Netherlands), and prior to launching this program, the WB ordered a report, attaching importance to expert advice for raising the efficiency of ADA's activities. According to the RA Government Information and PR Department, T. Sargsyan expressed his gratitude for this useful work, underlining the importance to the opinions and recommendations made as a result of the study in terms of improving further work of the ADA.

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