ARMENIAN AND GREEK ENTREPRENEURS DISCUSSING COOPERATION PROSPECTS
ARKA
June 30, 2009
YEREVAN, June 30. /ARKA/. Armenian and Greek entrepreneurs are
discussing cooperation prospects.
They met in Yerevan for a business forum that is being held on the
initiative of the commerce chamber in Saloniki, Greece.
Antonuis Bubulos, representative of the chamber, told journalists
that the meeting between Armenian and Greek entrepreneurs has been
organized as part of "Erasmus Mundus" cooperation program for Armenia,
Georgia and Azerbaijan.
He said that the two countries’ entrepreneurs can cooperate in
construction sector, agriculture, pharmaceutics, information
technologies and food industry.
Bubulos also said that along with business forum, a meeting between
Armenian students and Greek entrepreneurs is being held here.
He expressed hope that such meetings would be regular.
He thinks they will spur business relations.
Arsen Ghazaryan, chairman of Armenian Union of Manufacturers and
Businessmen (Employers), in his turn, said that the business forum
is the best way for establishing business ties, especially amid the
global crisis.
He said 17 entrepreneurs from Greece and 40 from Armenia attended
the forum.
Ghazaryan said that Armenian-Greek business meetings will be held in
Yerevan up to July 3, then in Gyumri and Gavar.