By Vestnik Kavkaza
The Russian Trade Mission in Armenia and Rossotrudnichestvo organized a seminar with the support of the Russian embassy in Armenia on December 19th in Yerevan. It was devoted to problems of encouragement of international development projects by Russia in the context of prospects of member countries of the Eurasian Economic Union, Voice of Armenia reports.
Andrei Babko, the trade representative of Russia to Armenia, says that support is provided in Armenia in the spheres of food security, phytosanitary control, education, the irrigation system and financial security. This year Armenia received $2 million for food supplies.
The head of the Yerevan UN Industrial Development Office, Anait Simonyan, says that Armenia has launched a project to modernize the textile industry and manufacturing of clothes. Armenian designers studied in Italy for free. A framework agreement on the territorial development of Armenia in 2015-2018 is going to be signed. It requires $5 million of investments and involvement of 45 near-border communities of the Tavush Region. Moreover, UNIDO supports Armenia in the sphere of agricultural processing, development of small and medium-sized business, chemical production, construction materials and startups based on green technologies and innovations.
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“Within the import displacement framework, the republic will export 240 thousand tons of vegetables to Russian regions,” Kabardino-Balkaria Newspaper reports. Khakim Bittiyev, the deputy Agricultural Minister of Kabardino-Balkaria, states that this year the vegetable harvest in the republic is 347.5 thousand tons; fruits and berries – about 119 thousand tons. The indices exceed last year's harvest. At the same time, the demand for vegetables and fruits is much smaller. “Considering that, we are able to export about 40 thousand tons of fruits and 200 thousand tons of vegetables to various Russian regions,” he said.
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The Russian-Abkhazian fair exhibition took place in Sukhumi with the support of the Abkhazian Mission and the Russian Trade Office. “The Republic of Abkhazia” newspaper reports that the exhibition presents products by Russian and Abkhazian manufacturers, alcohol, mineral water, honey, jam, and so on.
First Vice Premier Shamil Adzynba, who opened the event, said: “We have a wonderful climate, lands for development of food supplies, cattle, and other branches. We are able to build processing enterprises using Russian technologies.” The Russian Ambassador to Abkhazia Semen Grigoryev stated that the event gave impetus to Russian investors coming to Abkhazia, laid the foundations for trade ties, promotion of Russian technologies in the Abkhazian market, and establishment of joint enterprises which would work in the interests of the two nations.
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Azerbaijan will develop nuclear power and technologies. The National Center for Nuclear Studies under the Ministry of Communications and High Technologies is operating in the country. It was established by order of President Ilham Aliyev on May 8th, 2014.
Region Plus cites the head of the Center, Adil Garibov: it is reasoned by high demands of the growth economy of Azerbaijan in the future. At the same time, alternative energy sources which are being developed in the republic are not able to cover the demands in comparison with nuclear technologies. “Our task is not to build a nuclear power station as soon as possible” Garibov explains. “Azerbaijan has rich oil and gas resources; and the NPS construction is not a short-term task for us. We are providing fundamental works today. I believe we need 20-30 years to build an NPS in Azerbaijan or even more.”
According to the head of the Center, to reach the goals it is necessary to develop nuclear technologies and staff potential. Moreover, Azerbaijan has no intention of using old reactors, as most of them use outdated technologies and they have a low level of security.
The scientist says that 15 ha of lands have been already allocated for construction of research reactors. The territory will include administration buildings, a DATA-center, other facilities of infrastructure for providing scientific works. The DATA-center will process information from the European Nuclear Research Center. The capacities of the Center will be expanded, while resources will be available for scientists who deal with nuclear energy studies.
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A new greenhouse complex is opening in the republic, according to Dagestanskaya Pravda. Its area is 10 ha.
Dagestan provides itself with vegetables and exports most of them – 500-600 thousand tons. However, it happens only during the summer season; while in the cold period the republic’s market is full of imports. In this context it is necessary to expand facilities. 700 million rubles will be invested in the project. Every year the complex will produce 4 thousand tons of vegetables (3 thousand tons of tomato and 1 thousand tons of cucumbers).
The new greenhouse complex has foreign equipment which uses high-tech modern technologies which are used in such countries as the Netherlands, Israel and Spain. The project will be fulfilled in two stages: the first one has already been completed; the second stage is scheduled for 2015. The first high-quality tomato products will be produced on January 25th, 2015.
