Arka News Agency, Armenia
Jan 31 2007

PRESIDENT OF MICROSOFT BILL GATES TO SIGN CONTRACT ON COOPERATION
WITH ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT

YEREVAN. January 31. /ARKA/. The Armenian government and Microsoft
Corporation will sign a contract on cooperation. The press service of
the ministry of trade and economic development of Armenia reported
that Trade Minister Karen Chshmarityan and President of Microsoft
Bill Gates signed the contract in Edinburgh on Tuesday.
"Back during the Month of IT in Yerevan in September 2006, the
Armenian prime minister met with the European Microsoft regional
vice-president. They reached an agreement on beginning strategic
cooperation of the corporation with the Armenian government," the
press release says.
As a result of successive long and intensive bilateral negotiations
that ended in January 2007 a text of the agreement was formulated,
and a decision was made to sign the agreement in Edinburgh during the
Government Leaders Forum – Europe.
The Armenian delegation led by the minister of trade and economic
development went to Scotland to participate in the Forum on January
29 on the invitation of Microsoft. R.O. -0–