ARMENIAN PRESIDENT PARTICIPATES IN NON-OFFICIAL SUMMIT OF HEADS OF CSTO COUNTRIES

ARMENPRESS
Dec 19, 2008

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 19, ARMENPRESS: Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan
left today for Kazakhstan at the invitation of his Turkmen counterpart
Nursultan Nazarbayev to participate in the non-official summit of
the heads of CSTO countries.

Presidential press service told Armenpress that before the start of
the summit Armenian president had a short meeting with Nursultan
Nazarbayev. During the meeting the two sides highly assessed the
current level of Armenian-Kazakh relations and noted that there are
pleased with the level of political dialogue between the two states.

The presidents also pointed out the role of the Armenian community
towards consolidation of Armenian-Kazakh friendly ties.

Serzh Sargsyan and Nursultan Nazarbayev underscored the further
development of economic partnership, noting that new ways of transport
communication will promote and give impetus to the increase of the
volume of trade turnover.

Afterwards the non-official summit of heads of states kicked off
the agenda of which included the prospects of regulation of CSTO
and partnership within the frameworks of the organization, world
financial-economic crisis as well as integration processes in the
CIS region.

President of Armenia, chairman of the council of heads of the CSTO
states Serzh Sargsyan greeted the conduction of non-official summit
noting that the discussed issues have great importance for the Republic
of Armenia. The participants of the summit agreed that the contacts
in such format give good opportunity for viewing the issues of the
agenda from different viewpoints and discuss a wide range of issues.