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    ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT RATIFIES OFID AGREEMENT WORTH $14MLN

    ARKA
    March 19, 2009

    YEREVAN, March 19. /ARKA/. Armenia's National Assembly ratified
    Thursday a mutually beneficial agreement with the OPEC Fund for
    International Development (OFID).

    Under the agreement, OFID is to allocate $14mln for Marketing
    Opportunities for Farmers program.

    The loan funds will help boost Armenia's agricultural enterprises,
    said RA Deputy Minister of Agriculture Samvel Avetisyan.

    The loan's annual interest rate is 3.2%. As a co-financing, Armenia
    will earmark $3mln for agricultural development, the deputy minister
    added.

    The loan funds will help Armenia boost social infrastructures in
    villages ($13.5mln) and cover organizational expenditures of the
    program ($500,000).

    Armenia and OFID signed the mutually beneficial agreement in Vienna
    on December 23, 1008.
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