Armenia-Russia Commodity Turnover Increased Twice

PanARMENIAN.Net
12.07.2006 17:51 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ June 12 the Co-chairs of the Russian-Armenian
intergovernmental committee on economic cooperation Igor Levitin and
Serge Sargsyan met in Yerevan to discuss the outcomes of the work
carried out during the initial half of 2006. The parties referred
to the agreement signed by Gazprom and the Armenian government on
Gazprom’s engagement in the energy projects in Armenia as well as
cooperation in communication and information technologies field.

Igor Levitin remarked that during the period of January-April 2006
the commodity turnover between the two states made $130.3 million
and increased almost twice against the last year index. Export has
grown with 135.7 % and reached $107.1 million. Import has grown
with 9% and totaled in $23.2 million. Levitin and Sargsyan noted the
importance of perfection of the normative-legal basis. A protocol was
signed upon completion of the meeting. The recurrent sitting of the
Russian-Armenian intergovernmental committee will be held in Moscow
October 200