4th SITTING OF ARMENIAN-SYRIAN INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMISSION TO TAKE
PLACE IN DAMASCUS IN MARCH
YEREVAN, JANUARY 30, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Gegham
Gharibjanian, the RA Deputy Foreign Minister met on January 29 in
Damascus with Walid Mualem, the Foreign Minister of Syria. Results of
diplomatic consultations being held on the previous day were summed up
during the meeting, and the sides’ readiness to develop various
bilateral relations with consistent steps was again mentioned. The RA
Deputy Foreign Minister re-affirmed the RA Foreign Ministry’s
invitation to Walid Mualem to visit Armenia.
As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA Foreign Ministry’s Press and
Information Department, the Armenian-Syrian diplomatic consultations
were held on January 28 in Damascus: RA Deputy Foreign Minister Gegham
Gharibjanian held the consultations from the Armenian side, and Syrian
Deputy Foreing Minister Ahmad Arnus held them from the Syrian side.
During the consultations the sides especially mentioned the high level
of the Armenian-Syrian political relations, touched upon the
Armenian-Syrian cooperation in international organizations as well,
Near East and Caucasus regional problems, attached importance to
activization of practical steps directed to development of bilateral
commercial-economic relations.
The RA Deputy Foreign Minister met on the same day with Amer Hossni
Lotfi, the Syrian Co-Chairman of the Armenian-Syrian intergovernmental
commission, Economy Minister, and discussed the issue of works of the
next, 4th sitting of the intergovernmental commission to take place in
March in Damascus as well as prospects of cooperation in the
commercial-economic sphere were outlined.