MEDVEDEV-SARGSYAN MEETING

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13:31:49 – 13/10/2009

A Serge Sargsyan-Dmitri Medvedev meeting took place in Moscow. It
was the seventh meeting of the presidents during this year.

In the course of the meeting, Dmitri Medvedev said happy to see
Serge Sargsyan and reiterated that they are continuing their regular
meetings and intensive dialogue in the context of bilateral as well
as multilateral issues. He underscored Russia’s mediatory role in
the negotiations over Nagorno-Karabakh issue.

The Russian president dwelt on the economic crisis saying that it does
not spare anyone and that there are no essential changes in trade
circulation. The same decline of 20 percent is still present. He
stated that Serge Sargsyan’s meetings with the Armenian Diaspora of
Russia are very important for our bilateral relations.

Serge Sargsyan in turn thanked his Russian counterpart for warm words
as well as for his personal participation in the Karabakh issue
settlement. He also expressed his gratitude for the assistance of
the Russian Federation in the process of the normalization of the
Armenian and Turkish relations.

Serge Sargsyan and Dmitri Medvedev discussed also questions relating
to the Armenian-Russian strategical relations as well as issues with
regard to the further development in commercial cooperation and other
issues. The Armenian and Russian presidents dwelt also on urgent
regional issues, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the normalization
of the Armenian and Turkish relations as two separate issues.

In the course of the meeting, the sides stressed the cooperation of
two countries within the frameworks of the CSTO and quick response
collective forces in the context of the Partnership-2009 military
exercises in Kazakhstan, the press office of the president reports.