ARMENIAN PRESIDENT MET WITH NIKOLAY RYZHKOV

Pan Armenian News
19.05.2005 06:47

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today Armenian President Robert Kocharian met with
Russian Co-Chair of the Armenian-Russian Interparliamentary Commission
for Cooperation Nikolay Ryzhkov, reported the Press Service of the
Armenian leader. In the course of the meeting R. Kocharian noted
that by today the Commission has carried out a rather large amount of
work and time has come for summarization and outlining the new steps
of cooperation. The interlocutors discussed the possible terms of
prompt and efficient launching of the enterprises conveyed to Russia,
specifically Mars plant. Besides, the parties discussed questions
of development of inter-regional cooperation, the operation of the
Kavkaz-Poti ferry passage, increase of the goods turnover between
the two countries, as well as noted the importance of steps aimed
at involvement of small and medium enterprise into the investment
field of Armenia. In his turn N. Ryzhkov shared impressions of the
visit to the towns that had suffered from the earthquake, noting
these have changed unrecognizably and the question of increase of
employment opportunities became a priority task there. In his words,
the expansion of the economic cooperation between Russia and Armenia
will promote solution of that problem, too.