ARMENIAN PRESIDENT, RUSSIAN PREMIER PRAISE BILATERAL COOPERATION

Public TV, Armenia
Feb 6 2008

[Presenter] The president of the republic [Robert Kocharyan] today
received Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov Enhanced Coverage
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Recent 60 Days and his delegation. The meeting was attended by Prime
Minister Serzh Sargsyan and other officials.

Stressing the growing Armenian-Russian relations, Robert Kocharyan
said that those relations have a bright future. Kocharyan said that
economic ties have become the locomotive of bilateral cooperation,
resulting in Russian capital’s involvement in many sectors of the
Armenian economy. Major projects have been implemented and it is
expected that more capital will be involved.

Kocharyan noted the rapidly developing cooperation on infrastructure.

The parties noted that the trade turnover which has reached about 1bn
dollars has created good grounds for larger projects. They attributed
the economic success, among other factors, to the effective work
of the Armenian-Russian intergovernmental economic commission. They
also noted the importance of active cooperation in the humanitarian,
cultural and educational sectors in the context of bilateral ties.