THE "RUSSIAN-ARMENIAN RELATIONS AND THE ARMENIAN FOREIGN POLICY BEFORE AND AFTER THE ELECTIONS" CONFERENCE TOOK PLACE IN YEREVAN

Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
May 10 2007

Yerevan, May 10. /Mediamax/. The "Russian-Armenian relations and the
Armenian foreign policy before and after the elections" conference
took place in Yerevan on the initiative of the Deputy of the Russian
State Duma, Director of the Institute of CIS States Konstantin Zatulin.

Mediamax reports that, speaking during the launching of the conference,
Konstantin Zatulin refused to name his sympathies concerning the
Armenian political forces, participating in the elections.

The participants of the conference discussed the prospects of the
development of political, economic and social cooperation of Armenia
and Russia.

The Executive Secretary of CIS Vladimir Rushailo, deputies of the
Russian State Duma Yuri Kvitsinski and Ruben Badalov, the Head of
Section of the 4th Department of the CIS states of the RF Foreign
Ministry Aleksey Dvinianin took part in the work of the conference.

During the conference, the opening of the branch of the Institute of
CIS states in Yerevan was announced.