RA AND RF FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS CURRENT ISSUES ON AGENDA OF COOPERATION BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES
MOSCOW, APRIL 7, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. On April 7, RA Foreign
Minister Vartan Oskanian met with RF Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at
the RF Foreign Ministry’s official delegations detached
house. S.Lavrov expressed satisfaction with the level of strategic
cooperation formed between Armenia and Russia in the last decade and
positive dynamics of development of interstate contacts which is
manifested in 2006 by the political dialogue, holding of various trade
and economic, cultural, scientific and educational events within the
framework of Year of Armenia in Russia. Then, according to RA Foreign
Ministry Press Service, the sides thoroughly dwelt on the current
issues on agenda of Armenian-Russian cooperation paying attention to
the issues of cooperation implemented between the two states in the
political and strategic spheres. From point of view of increase of
trade and economic circulation volumes, extension of direct contacts
between the Armenian and Russian regions and practical use of the
transit potential of the South Caucasus the interlocutors discussed
the issue of relaunching of the Abkhazian part of the Russian-Georgian
railway. The current process of Nagorno Karabakh settlement was
discussed at the meeting. Then the sides discussed issues of
cooperation at international and regional structures. They exchanged
thoughts about cooperation carried out by the two states within the
framework of CIS, CSTO, Eurasian Economic Cooperation, OSCE and
UN. Mentioning that the two countries hold the same opinions around
international and regional processes, the sides expressed readiness to
strain efforts for creating an atmosphere of mutual confidence and
establishing cooperation in the South Caucasus.