ARMENIAN AND LATVIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS POINT TO NECESSITY TO ACTIVIZE COOPERATION BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES

Noyan Tapan
Apr 20 2007

YEREVAN, APRIL 20, NOYAN TAPAN. "There are absolutely no problems
between our countries and we need to activize our cooperation for even
more." Latvian Foreign Minister Artis Pabrik stated at the April 20
joint press conference with RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian.

In his words, Latvia is very much interested in development of contacts
with Armenia and providing assistance to it in cooperation with the
European Union and NATO. "Latvia has always been disposed in a friendly
way towards the Caucasian region and Armenia: we lived together in
the same system. Today we can start implementing small projects, we
should just specify the spheres of mutual interests," A. Pabrik stated.

V. Oskanian, in his turn, highly estimated Armenian-Latvian relations
and pointed to the necessity to activize cooperation in all directions,
including spheres of politics, economy and culture. He also emphasized
that Latvia’s experience on integration to EU and NATO is very useful
for Armenia.

It was reported at the press conference that a Memorandum on
Cooperation was signed between the Foreign Ministries of Armenia
and Latvia.