CHIEF MINISTER OF DELHI TO VISIT ARMENIA IN SEPTEMBER

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Aug 27 2007

YEREVAN, August 27. /ARKA/. Sheila Dikshit, the chief minister of
Delhi, is to come to Armenia in September, Armenian Foreign Ministry’s
press office reported on Monday.

Dikshit has already discussed this visit’s details with Ashot
Kocharyan, Armenian ambassador to India.

Kocharyan stressed the importance of the visit and noted that it
coincides with the anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic
ties between Armenia and India.

At their meeting, the Delhi chief minister and the Armenian diplomat
expressed satisfaction with quickly developing Armenian-Indian
cooperation and various areas and pointed out doubled trade turnover
between the two countries as convincing evidence of that.

The ambassador expressed the firm belief that Dikshit’s visit to
Armenia would give another impetus to the relations, especially
between the two countries’ capitals.

"Pointing out the fact of centuries-long friendship between Armenian
and Indian nations, Dikshit and Kocharyan stressed the necessity of
spurring cooperation between the capitals", Armenian Foreign Ministry’s
press office reports.

According to official statistical data, trade turnover between Armenia
and India totaled $8.6mln in the first half of 2007 against the same
period of 2006.

Commodities worth $741thnd were exported from Armenia to India at
the first half of 2007. This result is 6.7 times greater than that
of the same period a year earlier.

Indian imports in Armenia totaled $7.9mln.

Trade turnover between the countries grew 41.1%, compared with whole
2006, and reached $23.3mln by late June 2007.