The Republic of Armenia has prepared the National Implementation Plan (NIP) figuring out national priorities on POPs issues, key tasks and main trends for activity aimed at application stoppage, reduction of releases/emissions and elimination of the stocks of POPs-containing wastes. Within the frames of the National Implementation Plan monitoring was performed on POPs residual amounts (PCBs and organochlorine pesticides) in environmental media (surface waters, soil, and bottom sediments), food, samples of breast milk taken from inhabitants of Aragatsotn marz as a rural region of Armenia. In