ITAR-TASS News Agency
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October 23, 2004 Saturday

Armenia president to discuss issues of cooperation with Georgia

By Tengiz Pachkoria

TBILISI

President Robert Kocharyan of Armenia on Saturday will discuss with
Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania and Speaker of the Georgian
parliament Nino Burdzhanadze issues of further development and
deepening of cooperation between the two countries.

Robert Kocharyan, who arrived in Georgia for a three-ay official
visit on Friday, will also hold a meeting with representatives of the
Armenian diaspora in Georgia. According to the census of 2002,
Armenians account for 5.6 percent of the 4-million-strong population
of Georgia (84 percent of the population are Georgians, 6.5 percent –
– Azerbaijanians and 1.5 percent – Russians).

On Friday, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili satated that over
the last two thousand years Georgia and Armenia had had no
territorial claims to each other and expressed the hope that there
would be no claims in the future as well.

Robert Kocharyan said that during his meeting with Mikhail
Saakashvili he “began discussing an issue of the two countries’
coordination of actions within the framework of the EU program “New
Neighbours.”

According to Kocharyan, they also discussed an issue “of possible
cooperation in the field of railway transport of all countries of the
Southern Caucasus.”