ARMENIAN, IRANIAN PRESIDENTS SEEK WIDE-RANGING COOPERATION BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
July 6 2006

YEREVAN, July 6. /ARKA/. Armenian and Iranian Presidents, Robert
Kocharyan and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seek a wide-ranging cooperation
between the two countries.

IRNA, Iranian state news agency, reports referring to presidential
press service that the Presidents said it in Iran on Wednesday during
the first round of talks between Armenian and Iranian delegations
headed by the Presidents.

Kocharyan said that over 90 documents on cooperation are signed
between Iran and Armenia. He thinks the programs outlined in the
documents should be put into reality as soon as possible.

He also expressed Armenia’s interest in widening mutually beneficial
cooperation with Iran in energy, electric energy and transport areas.

Armenian President invited his Iranian counterpart to Armenia and
the invitation was accepted with gratitude.

Ahmadinejad, in his turn, expressed appreciation of Iranian-Armenian
partnership and stressed the necessity of deepening relationship and
using both countries’ capacity to its full extent.

He expressed Teheran’s interest in cooperating with Armenia in
transport, culture, sport, tourism and other areas putting a special
emphasis on partnership in energy sector.

The news agency says the Presidents are expected to sign a number
of documents on cooperation as part of Kocharyan’s two-day visit to
Iran. M.V. -0–