ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SAYS ANXIOUSLY AWAITING IRANIAN COUNTERPART’S VISIT
IRNA website, Tehran
20 Jul 07
Yerevan, 20 July: Armenian President Robert Kocharyan said here Friday
[20 July] that he was impatiently looking forward to visiting of his
Iranian counterpart Mahmud Ahmadinezhad to Yerevan.
Kocharyan told Iran’s visiting foreign minister Manuchehr Mottaki that
exchange of talks and visits by Iranian and Armenian officials and
historical commonalities of the Iranian and Armenian nations as well
as their cordial ties have gravely been contributing into expansion
of the two-way ties.
He said conclusion of free trade agreement would boost volume of
mutual commercial transactions.
Mottaki, voicing satisfaction with the successful arrangement and
holding of the 7th Tehran-Yerevan Joint Economic Cooperation Commission
session, stressed promotion of bilateral ties.
"There is no limit to expansion of bilateral ties and in this line
we seek stronger cooperation with the Armenian side in the economic,
energy, transportation and transit sectors," he said.