RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA HAPPY ABOUT INTERREGIONAL COOPERATION BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES

ARKA
Feb 5, 2009

YEREVAN, February 5. /ARKA/. Russian Ambassador to Armenia Nikolay
Pavlov is happy about interregional cooperation between the two
countries.

"Russian-Armenian interregional cooperation developed properly in
2008, and 70 regions of Russian Federation were involved in the
cooperation to different degrees", he said while speaking at a press
conference in Novosti International Press Center on Thursday. "Legal
and organizational basis of these ties is developing".

The Russian diplomat said that Armenia signed agreements on cooperation
with Moscow and Middle Ural regions in 2008 alone.

He said that the agreements on cooperation between Armenian Government
and Sverdlov Region and between Armenia’s Armavir and Russia’s Yaroslav
regions were signed during Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s visit
to Yerevan.

"Preparation of joint mid-term cooperation programs by two countries
is very promising. Moscow and St. Petersburg have programs signed
with Yerevan", the ambassador said.

He said that Moscow regional authorities have sent a program
on cooperation with Armenian Government for approval, "making it
possible to work for the future and saturate contacts with practical
content".