RA FOREIGN MINISTER PAYS TWO-DAY WORKING VISIT TO GEORGIA

Noyan Tapan
June 9, 2009

TBILISI, JUNE 9, NOYAN TAPAN. At Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol
Vashadze’s invitation, RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian paid a
two-day working visit to Tbilisi on June 7-8.

E. Nalbandian with G. Vashadze and Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugalava conducted
the solemn unveiling of a memorial of Sayat Nova in Meydan Square
of Tbilisi on June 7. Memorial’s foundation-stone was laid in 2008
September by the Armenian and Georgian Presidents during RA President
Serzh Sargsyan’s official visit to Tbilisi.

E. Nalbandian met with G. Vashadze in the morning of June 8. The
Georgian Foreign Minister expressed satisfaction with cooperation
developing with Armenia in various spheres and said that the Georgian
authorities are interested in further deepening and expansion of the
current high level of interrelations.

Speaking about steps aimed at promoting economic cooperation between
the two countries and partnership in that sphere, E. Nalbandian
conveyed Armenian side’s expectation on reconsideration of tariffs
for cargo transportations to Armenia and out of Armenia through the
territory of Georgia. The Ministers also discussed issues regarding
cooperation in the energy and transport spheres.

According to the report of the RA Foreign Ministry Press and
Information Department, at the meeting, the Foreign Ministers of
Armenia and Georgia in detail discussed a number of problems of
Georgian Armenians. G. Vashadze presented programs implemented by the
Georgian authorities to solve the socio-economic problems in Javakhk,
in particular, in the spheres of creation of jobs, road construction
and improvement of educational institutions’ conditions.

The interlocutors also exchanged thoughts over a number of regional
and international issues.

E. Nalbandian returned to Yerevan the same day.