RUSSIA AND ARMENIA FOR STRATEGIC LINKS
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March 24 2008
Moscow, Mar 24 (Prensa Latina) Russian President Vladimir Putin
exhorted to preserve and increase the links with Armenia in the
future, as he received Armenian president-elect Serzh Sarkisian in
the Kremlin Monday.
"I congratulate you for the electoral results, because I know how
complicated political processes in Armenia are," Putin told his guest
during the dialogue with Sarkisian.
Sarkisian will be invested on April 9 and was also received by
Dimitri Medvedev, winner of the presidential elections in Russia,
who will be invested on May 7.
Putin has stated more than once that the bilateral relations have
absence of sharp problems between them.
Erevan is the most important allied of Russia in the Independent
States Community, after signing an agreement on acquisition of gas
at a fixed price of 110 dollars for each 1,000 cubic meters until 2009.
In exchange, Erevan gave the property of important industrial plants
and scientific investigation institutes to Russian enterprises and
gave total mastering of gas pipeline in construction from Iran to
Russian gas enterprise GAZPROM.
>From the geo-political point of view Armenia counts on the support of
Russia in its historical difference with Turkey and the territorial
conflict with Azerbaidzhan because of Nagorny Karabaj.
Recently Russia supported Armenia with its vote at the United Nations
during the debate for a resolution project on the topic, presented
by Azerbaidzhan.
Russian troops withdrawing from Georgia, for an agreement with Tbilisi
were relocated in Armenia as guarantors of the borders.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
