The RA Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan received the delegation of the US Department of Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) led by Major Matthew Pope, the new head of the Armenian Office. 

 

The Agency  implements a number of programs in Armenia aimed at assisting the Government in the veterinary and health sectors,  in conformity with the basic principles of the World Organization for Animal Health and the World Health Organization, which promote the development of specific dangerous pathogens detection, diagnosis and response system. 

 

Welcoming the guest Sergo Karapetyan praised the Agency’s programs being implemented in Armenia. In this context, the Minister stressed the role and the significance of constructing the central veterinary reference laboratory in our country. 

 

The Minister said that at the same time measures should be taken for the rearmament of the regional veterinary laboratories, as it is impossible to perform accurate diagnostic work without modern equipments. 

 

The Minister Sergo Karapetyan also drew the guests’ attention to the need for livestock registration and numbering, without which they cannot fully provide veterinary services. 

 

During the meeting the parties also discussed the prospects for further cooperation between the RA Ministry of Agriculture and DTRA Agency.

 

 

Division of Information and Public Relations of

the RA Ministry of Agriculture

 

 

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