ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER RECEIVES NEWLY APPOINTED GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA GRIGOL TABATADZE

ARMENPRESS
DECEMBER 2, 2009
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 2, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan received today newly appointed Georgian ambassador to Armenia
Grigol Tabatadze.

Governmental press service told Armenpress that congratulating the
ambassador on starting his mission in Armenia, the prime minister
expressed assurance that the ambassador’s activity will promote
the new progress in Armenian-Georgian relations. Tigran Sargsyan
highlighted particularly the promotion of economic cooperation and
drew the attention to the circumstance that the current volume of
trade turnover between the two countries is not satisfactory.

The prime minister noted that the possible opening of the Upper Lars
border check-point will have a favorable impact on the further economic
development and will consolidate Georgia’s role as a transit state.

Referring to the issues connected with the Armenian churches
in Georgia, head of the government pointed out the importance of
undertaking relevant steps by the Georgian government to restore St.
Gevorg Church.

The interlocutors discussed also the works of the Armenian-Georgian
inter-governmental commission the eighth session of which is planned
to be conducted in the beginning of the coming year in Yerevan.
From: Baghdasarian