Yerevan July 17
Marianna Mkrtchyan. Armenia can become bridge, or even maybe, a door into a huge Eurasian area, where more than 170 million people live, Armenian President Armen Sarkissian stated in an interview with RIA Novosti, answering the question whether it was possible to reach any agreements on attracting investments to the country.
Sarkissian recalled that the role of the president in the parliamentary republic does not envisage any levers of executive power for the head of state. According to him, it was obvious right from the beginning that if he took this post, he would have to use his ties in science and politics to attract investors to Armenia. At the same time, the head of the state noted that now the overall atmosphere in Armenia is positive – changes that have occurred in the republic after the "velvet revolution" are perceived by many people very positively.
"The great expectations of changes are for the better, and it's important that they turn into real results – in the economy and in business." My vision is as follows: we have a huge advantage today, because we are a member of the EEU, and when I say invest in Armenia, this does not mean that I am inviting to invest in a country with a population of 3.5 million people. Armenia can become a bridge, or even maybe a door to the huge Eurasian space where more than 170 million people live .Nowadays, when new technologies and developments are significant rather than natural resources, Armenia can make a bet on it. Currently, technologies are developing quite efficiently in Armenia and many world companies in this field are already working with us, and Armenia can become a technological bridge between the conditional East and the West, create its own new technologies that will have an international quality, and distribute them in the Eurasian space, "the Armenian President believes.
Sarkissian recalled that he was recently in France, and managed to meet with many French companies, for example, Dassault Systemes, Orange, THALES. "There were meetings not only with high-tech companies, I met with the owner of Chanel. In Armenia, the traditions of jewelry business are strong, it would be nice to combine our traditions and world technologies," he concluded.
