Visiting Armenian officials discuss cooperation with Chinese colleagues

Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan
27 Sep 04

[Presenter] A delegation led by Armenian President Robert Kocharyan
left for China on a state visit on Sunday [26 September]. The president
made a stopover in Tajikistan en route to China.

[Passage omitted: Kocharyan discussed bilateral cooperation with his
Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmonov]

[Correspondent Lilit Setrakyan reports by phone from Beijing] The
agriculture ministers of the two countries have held a meeting at the
Chinese Agriculture Ministry. Armenian Agriculture Minister David
Lokyan said he was confident that the programme to provide Armenia
with Chinese tractors would be continued.

Also, Armenian businessmen met their colleagues at the Chinese
international trade development council today. The presidents of the
companies Pure Iron, Mshak [Technology Innovation Center] and Armenal
[Armenian Aluminium] discussed cooperation in the spheres of machine
building, high technologies and aluminium trading.

Chinese President Hu Jintao will meet Armenian President Robert
Kocharyan this afternoon.