ANDRANIK MARGARIAN: ARMENIA SHOUD NOT INTERFERE IN SOLUTION OF THE RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN PROBLEM

Noyan Tapan
Oct 23 2006

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 23, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenian-Belarusian agreements on
cooperation in several sectors such as customs, social, cadastre, and
sports were signed on October 23 within the framework of the visit of
the delegation headed by the Belarusian prime minister to Armenia. The
Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Margarian and the Belarusian Prime
Minister Sergei Sidorski took part in the signing ceremony. Following
the signing ceremony, S. Sidorski said that it is envisaged to open in
Armenia a center of machinery and equipment spare parts produced in
Belarus, as well as an office of Belarusian companies maufacturing
medical equipment. The Belarusian side expressed an intention to
cooperate with Armenian technoparks. S. Sidorski noted that they also
take interest in Armenian information technologies. According to him,
commodity turnover between the two countries is growing: in 2005,
it made 15 mln USD, while in the first seven months of this year –
14 mln USD. At the same time he said that they are following closely
the problems that arise in connnection of transporting goods from
Belarus to Armenia and in the opposite direction. In his opinion,
the current relations of Russia and Georgia have a negative impact
on the volume of commodity turnover between Belarus and Armenia. He
said that Belarus attaches great importance to activation of
negotiations on development of transport corridors between the two
countries. According to A. Margarian, the current Russian-Georgian
relations is an internal problem of these countries. In his opinion,
neither Armenia nor Belarus should interfere in the solution of
this problem. The Armenian government is prepared to help with the
problem’s solution, if Russia or Georgia express such a desire.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress