SYRIAN -ARMENIAN JOINT COMMITTEE STARTS ACTIVITIES
Cham Press, Syria
Sept 7 2009
Activities of the Syrian-Armenian Joint Committee started on Monday
in the Armenian Capital of Yerevan co-chaired by Syrian Minister of
Economy and Trade Amer Hosni Lutfi and Armenian Minister of Agriculture
Gerasim Alaverdyan.
Means of consolidating and promoting economic, trade, investment
and cultural relations to meet the interests of both countries will
be discussed.
The Committee will also review cooperation between the two sides in
the fields of trade, investment, banks, transportation, electricity ,
oil, higher education, communications, agriculture, health and tourism
in addition to housing and construction, local administration along
with social, sport and industrial affairs.
The necessary documents for enriching the legal framework regulating
bilateral relations in many fields will be prepared by the Committee.
The Armenian delegation will be accompanied by Syrian businessmen who
will hold meetings with their counterparts from the Armenian private
sector to discuss joint work relations in addition to activating the
role of the Syrian-Armenian Business Council.
Meetings of the Syrian-Armenian Committee come in the framework of
activating bilateral cooperation between the two countries after the
latest visit of President Bashar al-Assad to Armenia where both sides
called for developing economic relations and the investments between
the two countries .