"COMFORTABLE" RELATIONS ARE MORE IMPORTANT?

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[11:45 am] 19 January, 2009

The Presidents of Armenia and Russian, Serzh Sargsyan and Dmitry
Medvedev, had a meeting in Moscow following the international gas
summit.

The President of Russian thanked his Armenian counterpart for accepting
the invitation and participating in the summit. The Presidents highly
appreciated the relations between the two countries, characterising
those as reliable and corresponding to the Armenian-Russian strategic
partnership.

Dmitry Medvedev noted that the Armenian-Russian allied relations are
more comfortable than the complex issues discussed during the gas
summit. President Sargsyan, in turn, attached great importance to
the cooperation with Russia and "Gazprom" in the field of energy,
assessing it as reliable and grounded on long-term interests.

Serzh Sargsyan underlined that the consumption of gas has tripled
in Armenia over the past years, and with the level of gasification
Armenia is leading not only in the Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS), but also the world, as a whole.

Presidents Sargsyan and Medvedev agreed that the frequent high-level
visits and meetings provide an opportunity to discuss and find
solutions to trifle issues.