ARMENIA INTENDS TO OPEN CONSULATE IN BATUMI
Arka News Agency, Armenia
Aug 5 2006
YEREVAN, September 5. /ARKA/. During a meeting with Prime Minister of
Ajaria Autonomous Republic Levan Varshalomidze, Armenian Ambassador to
Georgia Hrach Silvanyan said that Armenia intended to open a consulate
in Batumi.
"This issue is being considered in the RA Foreign Ministry at present
and soon will get its positive solution", he said, according to the
RA Foreign Ministry Press and Information Department.
According to the press release, Varshalomidze informed that this year
35,000 Armenian tourists had visited Ajaria, at that it is expected
that by the end of September this number would reach 45,000 people.
He noted that in conditions of such flow of Armenia tourists the
issue of opening an Armenia consulate in Ajaria became a necessity.
Varshalamidze also mentioned the importance of attracting Armenian
entrepreneurs to the internal market of the country, taking into
consideration rich experience of Armenian business in the sphere of
production and processing of agricultural products.
During the meeting the sides spoke for the necessity of enlargement
and development of bilateral cooperation between the two countries, as
well as elaboration of new variants of mutually beneficial contacts. In
this connection Varshalomidze said that Armenia and Ajaria already
had active cooperation in the sphere of tourism.
He also said that the Mayor of Batumi would be given corresponding
instructions for organization of the work on surrounding an Armenian
church in Batumi by a fence and improving the territory around it.