ROBERT KOCHARIAN: IT IS IMPORTANT TO STIMULATE COOPERATION WIHOUT WAITING FOR CONFLICTS SETTLEMENT

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 07 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 7, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. RA President Robert
Kocharian addressed the participants of the 27th plenary session of
the Parliamentary Assembly (PA) of Black Sea Economic Cooperation
(BSEC) being held in Yerevan. President’s Assistant Vigen Sargsian
read the address on June 7, at the plenary session of PA BSEC at RA NA.

“Up to this day time BSEC has acted successfully in development of
economic cooperation in the region. Nevertheless, there is still a
great potential.

Joint investments to regional infrastructures, especially in the sphere
of energy and transport should be stimulated,” the Armenian President’s
address read. According to him, cultural, educational, scientific
programs, tourism development can also have great importance.

Robert Kocharian’s address mentions that the parliamentarians with
their law-adopting activity can form a favorable legal-contractual
field for effective cooperation in the region. “Use of the common
potential of our countries is possible only under conditions of
more liberalized economics. This should envisage free circulation of
capital, goods and services, open borders in the whole region. It is
important to stimulate cooperation without waiting for the settlement
of the current conflicts and smoothing over the disagreements.

Cooperation itself can have a favorable influence on the process of
overcoming the existing difficulties.”

“Our countries are faced with common challenges of organized crime
and terrorism and at the same time they have common striving for
deepening the European integration. This means that we can unite
our efforts for a large-scale regional cooperation,” the Armenian
President’s address read.