ARMENIAN PREMIER: RELATIONS WITH GEORGIA PRIORITY FOR ARMENIA

ARKA
Dec 9, 2008

TBILISI, December 9. /ARKA/. Relations with Georgia have a priority
meaning for Armenia, said RA Premier Tigran Sargsyan at the regular
sitting of Armenian-Georgian intergovernmental commission on economic
cooperation in Tbilisi on Tuesday.

"I am sure the issues we will jointly consider will contribute to
improvement of bilateral relations between our nations," said Sargsyan.

He said the agreement reached by Armenian and Georgian Presidents
during the recent visit of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to Tbilisi
(September 30 – October 1) served as stimulus for solving many issues.
Georgian Premier Grigol Mgaloblishvili stressed Armenian-Georgian
relations are well developing lately.

He said he hoped the sitting will boost existing bilateral relations.

A protocol will be signed at the end of the commission’s sitting.

The sides will also sign another protocol on amendments to
intergovernmental agreement on free trade as well as to Cooperation
program between Georgia’s Ministry of Culture, Protection of Monuments
and Sport and Armenian Ministry of Culture.

Armenian Prime Minister will have meetings with Georgian President
Mikhail Sahakashvili as well as with his Georgian counterpart Grigol
Mgaloblishvili during his stay in Tbilisi.

Armenian delegation members are Finance Minister Tigran Davtyan,
Economy Minister Nerses Yeritsyan, Energy and Natural Resources
0D Minister Armen Movsisyan, Diaspora minister Hranush Hakobyan,
Head of Government’s Staff David Sargsyan and President of National
Expenses Commission Gagik Khachatryan, as well as Hrant Beglaryan, the
First Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, Deputy Foreign
Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan, Deputy Agriculture inister Levon Rukhkyan,
Deputy Culture Minister Gagik Gyurjyan, Armenian Ambassador to Georgia
Hrach Silvanian, Deputy Vladimir Badalyan and other officials.