PRESIDENT SERZH SARGSYAN CONDUCTED BILATERAL MEETINGS IN DAVOS

ARMENPRESS
Jan 29, 2009

YEREVAN, JANUARY 29, ARMENPRESS: President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan
participated January 28 in the official opening ceremony of Davos
World Economic Summit after which an official dinner was given by
the president and founder of the Forum Claus Swab.

Presidential press service told Armenpress that the President of
Armenia participated in the reception organized by the Prime Minister
of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

Today in the morning Serzh Sargsyan started his bilateral meetings
in Davos.

The president met with the executive director of International Agency
of Nuclear Energy Muhammed El Baradey. During the meeting the sides
highly underscored the current level of cooperation between the agency
and Armenia. During the meeting they also discussed a number of issues
referring to the construction of new nuclear energy block. Muhammed
El Baradey highly underscored the steps carried out by now by the
Armenian authorities towards the construction of new nuclear energy
block and expressed readiness to provide technical assistance in
different rounds of implementation of the program. The executive
director also highly assessed the steps carried out by the Armenian
authorities directed towards increasing the level of security of
Metsamor nuclear power plant.

The president of the country on his turn expressed gratitude to
Muhammed El Baradey for consultation support.

President Serzh Sargsyan also met in Davos with chairman of the Asian
Development Bank Haruhiko Kuroda. Serzh Sargsyan expressed gratitude
to the chairman of the bank for the implementation of joint programs
assessing them as effective.

Haruhiko Kuroda on his part highly assessed the steps undertaken by
the Armenian authorities in state governance sphere and noted that
the Asian Development Bank is interested in developing long-term
partnership agreements with the Republic of Armenia, underscoring the
effective combination of all the existing tools directed towards the
development in Armenia.

Today the president is also expected to meet with the prime minister
of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Switzerland Hans Rudolph. Late
in the evening the Armenian president is expected to meet with the
Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan.