ARMENIAN PRESIDENT, ITALIAN PREMIER DISCUSS TIES, RELATIONS WITH TURKEY
Mediamax news agency
28 Jan 05
YEREVAN
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan met Italian Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi in Rome today.
Kocharyan and Berlusconi discussed issues of bilateral relations,
putting special accent on the necessity to extend and boost trade and
economic relations, Mediamax’s special correspondent reports from
Rome.
The sides also considered political issues, noting good contacts
between the Armenian and Italian Foreign Ministries.
The Armenian president and the Italian prime minister also exchanged
opinions on regional and international problems and discussed the
process of Armenia’s European integration. Robert Kocharyan and Silvio
Berlusconi touched upon the issue of normalization of Armenian-Turkish
relations, viewing it in the context of the forthcoming beginning of
talks on Turkey’s accession to the European Union (EU).