Amid the ongoing crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, Armenia has announced that it will conduct a safety review at one of its own plants that is located on an earthquake fault line.
In Armenia on the first stop of his first tour of the region, the new top U.S. diplomat for Europe and the former Soviet Union sounded optimistic about prospects for the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations.
Armenia said on January 21 it was very close to normalising relations with neighboring Turkey after a century of hostility.
The Armenian prime minister believes the set of measures foreseen by the government will help Armenia cope with the negative consequences and minimize the impact of the continuing economic crisis in 2009. Tigran Sarkisian said more investments in infrastructure development and several large projects to be launched by the state will provide new jobs for people to offset possible redundancies elsewhere.
