Yerevan, August 6. /Mediamax/. Armenia and Iran have no agreements on saving the Urmia Lake.

Head of the Water Resources Management Agency at the Ministry of Nature Protection of Armenia Volodya Narimanyan told Mediamax that the Iranian side didn't present any official proposals to get Armenia’s support in saving the lake.

Mediamax recalls that head of the Environmental Protection Organization of Iran Mohammad Javad Mohammadizadeh stated several days ago that Iran and Armenia reached an agreement on cooperation in the issue of recovering Urmia Lake and Armenia would provide water to Iran to this end.

In reply to this, head of the Water Resources Management Agency of Armenia stated that such issues were not discussed during the visit of Iranian delegation to Yerevan on July 16-18.

“Armenia hasn't been officially made such a proposal. During the meeting, we discussed issues of researching the river of Araks and setting up a joint park”, stated Volodya Narimanyan.

He didn't rule out that the issue of saving the lake will be discussed with the Iranian side in the future noting that it's yet early to speak about such a cooperation.

The Iranian side says that dewatering of the Urmia Lake “will become en environmental disaster” which will affect neighboring countries as well.

According to the data provided by the Iranian environmental organizations, almost half of the lake's surface has dried up and turned into salt layers.

Mass protests which participants condemned the government of not willing to take actions for saving the lake were held in the towns of Urmia and Tavriz last year.