Yerevan, February 19 /Mediamax/. The Minister of Finance and Economy of Armenia Vartan Khachatrian meet the leadership of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), headed by Chairman Haruhiko Kuroda in the Philippines today.

As Mediamax was told in the press service of the Ministry of Finance and Economy of Armenia, during the meeting they discussed issues, related to the cooperation of the ADB with Armenia. ADB is Armenia’s new donor-partner and within the framework of the cooperation it plans to realize a number of programs, assisting the development of the Armenian economy. The sides also discussed the possible directions of cooperation, among them agriculture, transport and the financial sector.

Armenia became a member of ADB on September 20 of 2005, joining the “ADB Charter Agreement”.