ARMENIA, SYRIA INTERESTED IN BOOSTING ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Karen Ghazaryan

"Radiolur"
18.06.2009 13:59

The Presidents of Armenia and Syria attended the opening ceremony
of the Armenian-Syrian business forum at the Government’s House
of Receptions.

President Serzh Sargsyan welcomed the participants of the forum and
wished them productive activity.

Addressing the forum, the Armenian President said: "The Armenian-Syrian
friendship is based on firm grounds. Under the conditions of the
current political and economic realities our countries are building
warm and dynamically developing relations of new quality, where the
levels of political and economic collaboration should tend to be on
an equal level."

According to President Sargsyan, the friendly and brotherly feelings
of our peoples for each other, as well as the bilateral political
relations do not correspond to the current level of trade-economic
cooperation. "This forum is a good opportunity to get acquainted
with each other’s achievements in the trade-economic field, to
establish business ties. I do believe that a great potential exists
in the scientific-technical, agricultural, energy, urban development,
tourism, trade and financial sectors, and our today’s task is to set
realistic objectives targeted at the utilization of that potential,"
the president said.

Serzh Sargsyan ascribed a great role to the Syrian Armenian communi
ty. He asked them to use their opportunities and business ties to
reveal the trade-economic potential of our country and present the
production of both countries to each other.

President Sargsyan assured that any new endeavor, and project targeted
at the intensification of economic ties would be supported by the
Armenian Government.