SITTING OF ARMENIAN-IRANIAN INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMISSION TO BE HELD ON JULY 20 IN YEREVAN

Noyan Tapan
Jul 17 2007

YEREVAN, JULY 17, NOYAN TAPAN. The 7th sitting of Armenian-Iranian
Intergovernmental Commission will be held on July 20 in
Yerevan. Manouchehr Mottaki, the Foreign Minister of Iran, the
Commission’s Iranian Co-chairman, will arrive in Armenia for taking
part in it. Issues regarding free trade, as well as other issues
related to bilateral economic relations are on the sitting’s agenda. A
Memorandum on Mutual Understanding will be signed at the end of the
sitting. Seyid Mahdi Mirabutalebi, the Head of the Economic Cooperation
General Department of the IRI Foreign Ministry, at the July 17 meeting,
explained that the Iranian party has assumed chairmanship in the
Intergovernmental Commission at the Foreign Ministry’s level, as they
are not content with the level of the current economic relations.

S. M. Mirabutalebi said that though the political dialogue between
the two countries is at the high level, nevertheless, serious steps
should be also undertaken in the direction of developing economic
cooperation, in particular, bringing commodity circulation between
the two countries to 1b USD this year.

Armen Bayburdian, the RA Deputy Foreign Minister, said that five
working groups have been created, which are engaged in issued related
to the primary spheres of trade and economic relations.