ARMENIAN, GEORGIAN FMS THINK MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES TO KEEP DEVELOPING

Arka News Agency, Armenia
June 28 2006

YEREVAN, June 28. /ARKA/. Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan and
his Georgian counterpart Gela Bejuashvili who met in Tuesday Tbilisi
expressed confidence that the mutually beneficial partnership between
the two countries will keep developing.

The Armenian and Georgian Foreign Ministers were united in thinking
that Armenian-Georgian relations are based on close historic ties and
strong friendship and will keep developing in the future, Armenian
Foreign Ministry press service said.

he sides estimated Armenian-Georgian relations agenda as deep and
comprehensive and pointed out high-ranking officials’ mutual visits
and constant contacts between the two countries’ governments over a
wide range of issues as convincing evidence of that.

The ministers also stressed the necessity of coordinating
efforts in economy and business area to make the ties closer and
stimulate investments. They also emphasized that effective transport
communications development will spur economic relations between the
two countries.

Both Oskanyan and Bejuashvili were also convinced that problems
connected with Armenian-Georgian border delimitation and demarcation
will be solved very soon.

They considered prospects of regional development and the process of
regional conflicts settlement as well as exchanged information about
the course of negotiations over Karabakh, Abkhazia,and South Ossetia.