CIS: heads of commerce chambers meet in Yerevan

ITAR-TASS, Russia
June 1 2004

YEREVAN, June 1 (Itar-Tass) – A meeting of the CIS Council of Heads
of Chambers of Commerce and Industry will be held in Yerevan on
Tuesday. Its participants will discuss prospects of cooperation in
various spheres of CIS economy.

The Yerevan meeting is expected to demonstrate achievements in the
sphere of small and medium business on the post-Soviet territory,
to reveal the potential of the implementation of investment projects
and to promote the expansion of contacts between economic entities of
the CIS member countries, Martin Sarkisyan, president of the Armenian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry, told Itar-Tass.

A business forum on the development of small and medium business will
be held within the framework of the meeting. Aside from it, the CIS-
Expo-2004 exhibition is being held in the sports and concert complex
of Yerevan. Bulgarian and Iranian firms were also invited to take
part in it.

The Council of the Heads of Chambers of Commerce and Industry was
created last summer. It is headed by Martin Sarkisyan.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress