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On February 5, at the Standing Committee on Territorial Administration, Local Self-Government, Agriculture and Environment of the RA National Assembly moderated by Vardevan Grigoryan a working discussion on the results of the legal analysis Assessment of the Policy of the Water Resource Management Sphere and Legal-Regulation Frame and Elaboration of the Improvement Ways. It was implemented within the framework of the programme Participating and Effective Use of Water Resources by the Urban Foundation for Sustainable Development (UFSD), the Country Water Partnerships NGO and the Scientific-Educational Environmental Law Resource Centre - YSU. The USAID agency finances the programme.

The Head of the 1^st and 2^nd parts of the Participating and Effective Use of Water Resources Hayastan Stepanyan, the Doctor-Professor of Legal Sciences, the Head of the Scientific-Educational Environmental Law Resource Centre - YSU Aida Iskoyan, the experts Heghine Hakhverdyan and Olympia Geghamyan presented the gaps and shortcomings revealed as a result of water legislation analysis and indicated solutions.

The representatives of the programme proposed to pass the RA Law on Irrigation Water.

Thanking the participants of the discussion, the Committee Chair Vardevan Grigoryan expressed readiness for cooperation to discuss the results of the studies to be implemented within the framework of the programme, as well as to analyze the recommendations and call them into life.