RA PRIME MINISTER: DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORT COOPERATION IS THE MOST PAINFUL ISSUE IN ARMENIA-RUSSIAN RELATIONS

Arminfo
2007-04-11 15:36:00

The development of transport cooperation is the most painful issue
in the Armenian -Russian relations, RA Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan
said during today’s meeting with the first deputy Prime Minister of
Russia Sergey Ivanov.

As the RA Governmental press-service told ArmInfo, S. Ivanov
congratulated S. Sargsyan with his designation as RA Prime Minister
and expressed confidence that the Armenian-Russian relations will
further develop successfully. In his turn, S. Sargsyan stressed
that the present visit of Sergey Ivanov will become the additional
stimulus for further deepening of the bilateral cooperation in
different spheres. The sides expressed satisfaction with activation
of the Armenian-Russian multilateral cooperation over the last
years. S. Ivanov noted that an active work was also carried out within
the frames of the Armenian- Russian intergovernmental commission
on economic and scientific-technical cooperation, the problems of
cooperation development in trade-economic, transport, energy and
other spheres were discussed, in particular. He expressed hope that
the issues of further bilateral cooperation will be also discussed
during his present visit.

RA Prime Minister underlined that the relations between Armenia
and Russia in political and economic areas are being perfectly
developed. At the same time, he said, the issue of transport
cooperation remains the most painful one.

In view of this, he expressed satisfaction with commissioning of the
Caucasus- Poti ferry communication. S. Sargsyan also touched on the
issue of recurrent startup of the Armenian enterprises, given to
Russia within the frames of the "Property for Debt" Contract. He
noted that Armenia is ready to create all the conditions for the
soonest solution of this problem, in view of which S. Ivanov noted
the necessity of searching efficient commercial solutions.

During the meeting, the sides also discussed the issues of cooperation
development in energy, nuclear energy, transport , communication and
the military-technical cooperation.