SERGEY IVANOV’S VISIT TO YEREVAN TO BECOME A NEW IMPETUS FOR FURTHER DEEPENING INTERACTION BETWEEN ARMENIA AND RUSSIA
DeFacto Agency, Armenia
April 11 2007
Multisided interaction between Armenia and Russia has recently livened
up. The viewpoint was expressed at RA PM Serge Sargsian’s meeting with
a Russian delegation headed by RF First vice Premier Sergey Ivanov,
who had arrived in Yerevan the day before on a working call.
In the course of the meeting Sergey Ivanov congratulated Serge Sargsian
on his new assignment and voiced confidence that Armenian-Russian
relations would go on successfully developing.
In his turn RA PM stated he was confident Ivanov’s visit to Yerevan
would become a new impetus for further deepening interaction between
the two states in various spheres.
In the process of discussions the interlocutors expressed satisfaction
with the stirring up of multisided interaction between Armenia and
Russia. Sergey Ivanov noted active work was being carried out in
the issues of economic, scientific and technical cooperation, in
the frames of which the issues of interrelations in trade, economic,
transport, energetic and other branches were being considered. The
Russian Premier expressed hope all the urgent tasks would be discussed
within the frames of his visit to Yerevan. RA PM also underscored
interaction in the sphere of policy and economy was developing well
between Armenia and Russia, at the same time the issue of transport
communications still remained one of the most painful problems.
Serge Sargsian also touched on the issue of usage of five Armenian
enterprises given to Russia by the agreement "Property on Account of a
Debt", noting the Armenian party was ready to ensure all the conditions
necessary for the problem’s rapid solution. In this context Sergey
Ivanov mentioned it was necessary to find commercially effective
resolutions.
In the course of the meeting the parties also considered the outlooks
of the further development of bilateral cooperation in power
engineering, including atomic power engineering and the spheres
of connection, transport, military and technical interaction,
Novosti-Armenia Agency reports.