RA PRESIDENT CONSIDERS FORMATION OF LEGAL-CONTRACTUAL FIELD AS PRIMARY
FOR ARMENIAN-SWEDISH ECONOMIC COOPERATION

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 27, NOYAN TAPAN. On October 27, Hans Gunnar Aden,
newly appointed Ambassador of Sweden to Armenia (residence Stockholm)
handed his credentials to RA President Robert Kocharian. Congratulating
the Ambassador, RA President highly estimated the current level of
Armenian-Swedish political dialogue. Ambassador Aden said that
henceforth his country will give more time and attention to relations
with South Caucasian countries, including Armenia.

The parties considered President Robert Kocharian’s recent official
visit to Sweden as an important stimulus for further development of
bilateral cooperation. Currently some work is being done in concrete
directions around the agreements reached during the visit. In the
interlocutors’ opinion, in the respect of extension of cooperation new
possibilities are also created within the framework of European
Neighborhood policy. Attaching importance to economic component of
Armenian-Swedish relations, Robert Kocharian considered as primary
formation of legal-contractual field for cooperation, holding of
business forums for getting acquainted with one another’s
abilities. According to the report submitted to Noyan Tapan from RA
President’s Press Office, at the meeting they also spoke about
Armenian-Turkish relations, regional problems.