RA PRIME MINISTER TIGRAN SARGSYAN WELCOMED POLISH DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ANDREJ KREMER AND DEPUTY MINISTER OF ECONOMY MARCIN KOROLEC

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Tuesday, 30th of September, 2008

The Polish officials said they are in Armenia to discuss cooperation
programs with their Armenian counterparts aimed at furthering
economic and political interaction between the two countries,
supposed to bring the two countries closer to each other on the
way to euro-integration, as well as to present the EU Eastern
Partnership Program. They briefed the Prime Minister on the outcomes
of their talks and the arrangements achieved during the contacts
had with their Armenian colleagues which also covered the formation
of an appropriate legal framework for cooperation. In particular,
prioritized were the signing of instruments of economic cooperation,
investment encouragement and mutual protection, collaboration in the
field transport and communications and free trade regime.

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan welcomed these discussions by noting
that much of the Armenian-Polish cooperation potential needs developing
ahead. In his words, while about ten enterprises with Polish equity
are currently operating in Armenia, mostly in the commercial sector,
there is a clear need in expanding the mutually beneficial cooperation
into other sectors, too.

In this context, deputy ministers Andrej Kremer and Marcin Korolecz
pointed out a need for Armenia to participate in the annual business
forum held in Poland with the involvement of public and private sector
representatives from different countries. They took the opportunity
to invite the Prime Minister and people from the Armenian business
circles to attend the forum, engage talks with would-be investors
and come to arrangements on the spot.

During the meeting, the RA Prime Minister appreciated the passage by
the Polish Seim of a resolution acknowledging the genocide of Armenians
according to which "the commemoration of victims, the crime committed
and the call on its recognition is a moral duty for the whole mankind,
any people and good-willed individual."

The interlocutors also highlighted the need for engaging in ever
closer cooperation in education, science and culture. An agreement
was said to have been signed to that effect stipulating the drafting
and implementation of short-term projects in these areas.

At the close of this meeting, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan asked
the ministers to forward to the Prime Minister of Poland his greetings
and his government’s readiness to cooperation.