RUSSIA, ARMENIA PMS PREDICT BOOST IN RUSSIA-ARMENIA TRADE
ITAR-TASS Agency, Russia
Sept 25 2007
MOSCOW, September 25 (Itar-Tass) — Russian acting Prime Minister
Viktor Zubkov held international talks for the first time at this post
on Tuesday. He met with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisyan at
the Russian House of Government. Zubkov and Sarkisyan were very glad
with their first meeting. "We met for the first time, and this first
meeting shows that it will be very comfortable for us to work,"
the Russian acting premier said. "I was very glad to meet Serzh
Sarkisyan. He is very business-minded, and I also got accustomed to
concrete business," he went on to say.
The Armenian premier was accompanied by "a representative delegation
with a great number of concrete questions, which we will solve,
and I am sure, we will solve them," Zubkov emphasized.
These questions are the construction of a joint oil refinery, a huge
stock of construction materials and goods, which Armenia possesses.
"The enormous market, which will be in Sochi, uranium reserves, which
should be developed, produced and processed open up possibilities
for a steep rise of the trade," he believes. "A good boost in trade
relations is possible," Zubkov said with confidence.
The Armenian premier also noted that his first meeting with the Russian
counterpart showed, "We established very good relations." "It is felt
at once, and you yourself will assess the results of these relations
then," Serzh Sarkisyan told journalists on Tuesday.