IRAN TO CEMENT TIES WITH ARMENIA

PRESS TV
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:27:42
Iran

Iran’s Vice President for Physical Education, has discussed the
expansion of mutual cooperation with the Armenian President in Yerevan.

In a Monday meeting Robert Kocharian and Mohammad Aliabadi, called
the level of the two countries’ relations significant, emphasizing
the necessity of broadening the bilateral ties.

Aliabadi called the memorandum signed between the Iranian Physical
Education Organization and Armenia’s Ministry of Sport and Youth
a great step in boosting the two countries’ relations in the field
of sports.

In a meeting with Minister of Territorial Admin, Hovik Abrahamyan
and Minster of Foreign Affairs, Vartan Oskanian, Aliabadi underlined
Tehran’s readiness to expand cooperation with Yerevan in different
fields.

"Iran’s Armenian population plays a significant role in bringing the
two countries closer," he said.

Abrahamyan said that the participation of Iran’s Armenian athletes
in the Fourth Pan-Armenian Games is a sign of the two countries’
friendly relations.

"The Iranian President’s visit to Armenia which is scheduled before
the end of 2007, will greatly improve the political, economic and
cultural cooperation between Tehran and Yerevan," Abrahamyan concluded.