ARMENIAN, RUSSIAN PRESIDENTS MEET IN MOSCOW

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April 20 2010
Armenia

Armenian and Russian Presidents, Serzh Sargsyan and Dmitry Medvedev,
have met in Moscow today, April 20. The sides plan to discuss bilateral
cooperation and international problems.

ITAR-TASS reports that the Russian leader warmly welcomed his Armenian
counterpart. President Medvedev pointed out regular meetings with
the Armenian leader. "The fact that we hold regular meetings is of
high importance for consolidating confidence and understanding — as
well as the spirit of strategic partnership — between our nations,"
President Medvedev said.

President Serzh Sargsyan thanked the Russian leader for his
invitation and proposed discussing the Nagorno-Karabakh peace
process. The Armenian leader informed his Russian counterpart that the
Russian-Armenian Intergovernmental Commission is actively working. He
also thanked President Medvedev for a new Russian innovation center
recently opened in Yerevan.

President Sargsyan also pointed out that the Armenian Government,
in cooperation with the RF Embassy in Armenia, is "actively working
to renovate the memorial to the Russian officers killed in the
Armenian-Turkish war."