Armenian premier and Georgian vice-premier to try to build up trade between their countries

ARKA, Armenia

YEREVAN, June 12. /ARKA/. Karen Karapetyan, Armenian prime minister, and a Georgian delegation headed by First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance Dimitri Kumsishvili met Saturday in Dilijan at an annual meeting of the Belgium and the Netherlands-led subgroup of International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

They discussed bilateral relations and the course of joint programs.

Karen Karapetyan and Dimitri Kumsishvili outlined steps to be taken to develop these relations.

They said that the commodity turnover between Armenia and Georgia has been steadily growing in recent months and that consistent efforts should be made to uphold and boost this trend.

The parties reaffirmed their readiness to continue promoting cooperation between the two countries’ business people, attracting investments, collaborating in free trade zones and in tourism industry, strengthening cultural ties etc. –0—

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS