IRAN’S TOP SECURITY OFFICIAL TO VISIT ARMENIA IN 2009

Fars News Agency
Dec 25 2008
Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary
Saeed Jalili will pay an official visit to Armenia in 2009.

The decision was made during a meeting between visiting Iranian SNSC
Undersecretary Ali Bagheri and Armenia’s National Security Council
(SNC) Secretary Arthur Baghdasaryan in Yerevan on Tuesday.

The parties discussed a broad framework of issues related to the
deepening of relations between Iran and Armenia, stressing the
importance of considering those issues in the context of both regional
and international relations.

The two sides also agreed that the two countries have a great potential
for cooperation.

Reference was also made at the meeting to the construction of
the Iran-Armenia railway, an oil pipeline, as well as Tehran’s
participation in the construction of the Yerevan-Batumi highway.

The interlocutors underlined the necessity of raising the strategic
level of the two countries’ relations.

Ali Bagheri and Arthur Baghdasaryan emphasized the importance of taking
practical steps towards accomplishment of the agreements reached and
noted that it could be greatly promoted by the establishment of a
special committee between the Iranian and Armenian Security Councils.

Arthur Baghdasaryan invited his Iranian counterpart to pay an official
visit to Armenia. The visit will take place in 2009.