ITAR-TASS News Agency
TASS
October 23, 2004 Saturday
Georgia, Armenia to step up inter-parliamentary cooperation
By Tengiz Pachkoria
TBILISI
Armenia and Georgia have announced a new stage of enhanced
inter-parliamentary cooperation between the two countries.
Speaking after talks with Georgian parliament speaker Nino
Burdzhanadze on Saturday, Armenian President Robert Kocharyan told
journalists, “The parliaments of the two countries have certain
experience of cooperation. Now it needs to be refreshed and
enhanced.”
Burdzhanadze said Georgia sought “even closer cooperation with
Armenia”. In her words, “This is in the interests of both countries
and the entire region.”
“It is important that the presidents of Georgia and Armenia have
reached an agreement on many areas of cooperation. The parliaments of
our countries will have to create good conditions for the
implementation of these agreements,” she said.
The speaker said she and Kocharyan had discussed problems that “worry
Georgia and Armenia as well as questions connected with the future
activities of the two countries in the international arena.”