ARMENIAN LEADER OFF TO SOCHI TO MEET RUSSIAN COUNTERPART
ArmInfo News Agency (in Russian)
Sept 2 2008
Armenia
Yerevan, 2 September: Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan left for
Sochi this morning on a one-day working visit, the president’s press
service has reported.
According to Russian sources, the Russian and Armenian presidents,
Dmitriy Medvedev and Serzh Sargsyan, will discuss the situation in
the Caucasus as well as the implementation of new larger projects. A
high-ranking Kremlin official said that "the parties will discuss the
possibilities of implementation of projects in mining and processing
sectors and transport with an aim to boost Russian investments in
the coming years and at least double them".
[Passage omitted: Sargsyan and Medvedev have already met twice
this year]
The Kremlin official said that "Sargsyan and Medvedev will discuss
the situation in the Caucasus, exchange views on several urgent issues
on the Russian-Armenian agenda".
"Medvedev will also brief Sargsyan on the Russian assessment of the
situation that has emerged after Georgia’s aggressive steps in the
Caucasus, and the hard but the only possible decision to recognize
South Ossetia’s and Abkhazia’s independence and the Russian steps –
including international and legal – to ensure stability in the region,"
the source said.