POTENTIAL OF ARMENIAN ENTERPRISES CONVEYED TO RUSSIA CAN BE USED IN
FULL IN RUSSIAN STATE PROGRAMS

PanArmenian News
March 22 2005

22.03.2005 04:15

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The potential of Armenian enterprises conveyed to
the Russian Federation can be used in full in state programs, which
exist or are planned in Russia, while the enterprises themselves
can be integrated into industrial chains of Russia. Minister of
Energy of Russia Victor Khristenko stated it, Russian Ministry of
Energy reported. In his words, the inter-state integration cannot be
provided for within one day. Forming respective economic and other
preconditions is necessary to that end. An innovatory development
course is among the most important ones. «I think that scientific,
industrial and entrepreneurial circles of our countries should lay
a special emphasis on the need of innovatory growth, activation
of intellectual potential, development and application of high
technologies. Rapt attention should be paid to it. We should be
competitive at the international level. This can be attained only
in case we take the course of innovatory development,» Victor
Khristenko noted. The Minister also noted that the main document
regulating the relations of the Armenian and Russian Enterprises in
the military-economic sphere is the Agreement between the Government
of Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Armenia on
industrial and scientific-technical cooperation of defense enterprises
(March 30, 1994). In Khristenko’s words, in 1999 to strengthen
the available production ties of the defense industry enterprises
of Russia and Armenia (first out of the CIS countries) signed an
inter-governmental Agreement on maintaining the specialization of
the enterprises participating in military production. The agreement
refers to 23 Russian and 18 Armenian enterprises. The experience
gained and new integration opportunities of our countries allowed to
move from preserving the available production and scientific-technical
cooperation to the concept of their development and integration within
the framework of creation of new inter-state entities.

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