SARGSIAN, NARYSHKIN DISCUSS ARMENIA-RUSSIA TRADE, ECONOMY TIES IN CONTEXT OF NEW INTEGRATION
Interfax, Russia
March 30 2015
YEREVAN. March 30
Armenian President Serzh Sargsian on Monday received State Duma
Speaker Sergei Naryshkin in Yerevan, where Naryshkin had arrived on
an official visit.
“The parties discussed a wide spectrum of issues related to strategic
Armenian-Russian partnership, based on allied relations and embracing
all aspects of bilateral cooperation,” the Armenian president’s press
service reported.
Among the issues being discussed is trade and economic relations in
the context of new integration processes, the press service said.
Also, there was an exchange of views on the most pressing international
and regional problems and challenges to stability and security in
the Southern Caucasus, it said.
“The parties said that inter-parliamentary relations, which manifest
themselves effectively in international organization’s parliamentary
assemblies, are playing an important role in strengthening allied
relations between Armenia and Russia,” it said.
Sargsian made a point that inter-parliamentary ties between Armenia
and Russia have been developing in a stable and dynamic manner due
to the work of the long-established inter-parliamentary commission
on cooperation between the Armenian National Assembly and the Russian
Federal Assembly.
“The parties stated that as members of the Eurasian Economic Union,
Russia and Armenia have raised mutually beneficial partnerships to
a qualitative new level,” the press service said.