Russia, Armenia FMs satisfied with intensive political dialogue
By Ksenia Kaminskaya, Tengiz Pachkoria

ITAR-TASS News Agency
February 17, 2005 Thursday

TBILISI, February 17 — The Russian and Armenian foreign ministers,
Sergei Lavrov and Vartan Oskanyan, “are satisfied with the intensive
political dialogue and the positive dynamics of the economic ties and
interdepartmental cooperation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman
Alexander Yakovenko said on Thursday, summing up the results of
Russo-Armenian conversations in Yerevan.

“The sides exchanged opinions on the main directions and prospects
for the development of bilateral cooperation, also in the energy and
transport areas”, the spokesman said. “Close attention was given
to the analysis of the implementation of the arrangements at the
summit level reached when Armenian President Robert Kocharyan was on
a working visit to Russia in May 2004”.

Yakovenko said, “Special attention at the talks was given to the
discussion of international problems”. The sides “confirmed their
adherence to the stepping up of coordinated efforts in the bilateral
and multilateral formats to fight terrorism and oppose other threats
and challenges”. Besides, he said, questions of the reform of the
United Nations and of the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe were raised at the talks.

Discussing the ways of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, the
ministers “expressed support for the Prague process of consultations
between the ministers with the participation of the Minsk group of
the OSCE”, Yakovenko said.