ARMENIAN PRESIDENT, RUSSIAN OFFICIAL DISCUSS TIES

Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
Oct 12 2005

Yerevan, 12 October: Armenian President Robert Kocharyan received
Aleksandr Tkachev, the governor of Russia’s Krasnodar Territory,
in Yerevan today.

Kocharyan said at the meeting that mutually beneficial relations
between Armenia and Russian regions were a good basis for the
development of interstate relations, the presidential press service
told Mediamax news agency.

Aleksandr Tkachev said that the Armenian community of Krasnodar
Territory was playing a great role in strengthening bilateral
relations. He said that Armenians who live in the Territory were
involved practically in all spheres of life there.

The two men also discussed economic relations between Armenia and
Russia. Kocharyan said that thanks to expanded business relations,
the Russian business’ involvement in Armenia’s economy was increasing.