Deputy Prime Minister: Armenia is ready to host the participants of  the EBRD annual meeting at the highest level

ArmInfo. RA Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan received a delegation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), led by Secretary General  Enzo Quattrociocche. This is stated in the official statement of the  government.

As the EBRD Secretary General noted, the main purpose of the  delegation's visit is to study the possibilities of Yerevan to hold  the Bank's annual meeting in 2021.

Tigran Avinyan noted that the success of Francophonie Summit  in 2018  and the World Congress on Information Technologies show that Armenia  is ready and has all the necessary infrastructures to host the  participants of the annual meeting of the Bank at the highest level.

According to the report, the annual meeting of the EBRD brings  together delegations of countries, representatives of business  communities and other guests to discuss the institutional issues of  the structure.  At the same time, there is also a business forum and  a special investment meeting regarding the host country.

To recall, EBRD is a major international institutional investor.  Since the beginning of its activity in Armenia, EBRD has allocated  1.36 billion euros to the country's economy to implement 178 programs  in the energy, infrastructure, financial and corporate sectors. 90%  of the Bank's investments are in the private sector