RIA Novosti, Armenia
Dec 28 2004

MOSCOW AND YEREVAN TO DISCUSS BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION

MOSCOW/YEREVAN, December 28 (RIA Novosti) – On Tuesday the
Moscow-based President Hotel will host the sixth session of the
Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation between Russia
and Armenia.

The commission plans to consider a broad range of trade and economic
cooperation issues, including some energy, transportation, telecoms,
and humanitarian projects, the Russian Transportation Ministry told
RIA Novosti.

Russian Transportation Minister Igor Levitin is the Russian
co-chairman of the Commission; his Armenian peer is Armenian Defense
Minister and Secretary of the Presidential Security Council Serzh
Sarkisyan, who also heads the national delegation to the meeting.

Colonel Seiran Shakhsuvaryan, the press secretary of the Armenian
Defense Minister, said the meeting would discuss the implementation
of what had been agreed upon at the previous session on February 2003
and in the co-chairmen’s joint protocol of October 14, 2004.

A special protocol will be signed after the sixth meeting.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress