IRANIAN PRESIDENT IS GOING TO VISIT ARMENIA IN THE NEAR FUTURE
arminfo
2007-08-30 13:54:00
ArmInfo. Iranian President Mohammad Ahmadinejad is going to visit
Armenia in the near future, press-secretary of the Armenian president,
Viktor Sogomonyan, told ArmInfo correspondent. He also added that
the terms of the visit had not been specified yet. To note, Armenian
President Robert Kocharyan paid a working visit to Iran, at the
beginning of June 2006.
For his part, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchechr Mottaki told
journalists over his visit to Yerevan in July of the current year,
that the Iranian president’s visit to Armenia was programmed till
the end of 2007. ‘The presidents of the two states will discuss
the current problems of the bilateral cooperation, the ways of its
development, and will touch on a number of the regional issues for
peace and stability strengthening in the region’, – he said.
To note, at present several programmes of strategic for Armenia
significance are being implemented between Armenia and Iran. In
particular, the Iran-Armenia-Georgia power supply line, the project
of which was assessed by $90 mln; two hydro power plans on the
neighbouring Arax river (the project costs $150 mln). They continue
construction of the second line of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline ($150
mln). The programmes on construction of Iran-Armenia oil pipeline and
of an oil processing plant ($2,5 mln), as well as Iran-Armenia railway
($800 mln) are being discussed. According to the ArmInfo information,
Iranian president will visit Georgia after Armenia.