LEVEL OF ARMENIAN-GREEK ECONOMIC COOPERATION IS FAR FROM BEING SATISFACTORY, ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SAYS

Noyan Tapan
Mar 30 2006

YEREVAN, MARCH 30, NOYAN TAPAN. The current level of Armenian-Greek
economic cooperation is still far from being satisfactory and does not
reflect the potential existing between the two countries. The Armenian
President Robert Kocharian said this on March 30 when receiving the
Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece Evripidis Stylianidis. In this
connection Robert Kocharian underlined the importance of the role
of the Armenian-Greek intergovernmental commission on economic,
industrial, scientific and technical cooperation. E. Stylianidis,
who is in Armenia in order to participate in the fourth sitting as the
Greek co-chairman of the commission, expressed satisfaction over the
activities carried out by the intergovernmental commission during the
Yerevan sitting. He said that the commission strives to put in practice
the agreements reached during the RA President’s visit to Greece in
late 2005 and to outline new directions of cooperation. In his words,
the Greek side assesses the RA President’s visit as an excellent
one that gave a new quality to the bilateral relations. According to
the RA President’s press service, the interlocuters pointed out the
agriculture, tourism and energy sectors as priority directions of the
mutually beneficial cooperation. E. Stylianidis said that the Greek
side will try to encourage Greek businessmen to make investments and
set up joint ventures in Armenia.