On May 19 President Serzh Sargsyan convened a session of the National Security Council which reviewed the report of RoA Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Armen Movsisyan on the current stage of construction of a new nuclear energy unit in Armenia. It discussed and approved the steps taken in that direction so far. Attaching importance to the construction of the new energy unit for the middle-term and long-term development of Armenia’s economy, as well as ensuring the country’s energy security, the Security Council considered all the stages of the process from the technical-economic development of the project to the exploitation of the energy unit.