RUSSIAN, ARMENIAN PRESIDENT-ELECTS MEET IN THE KREMLIN
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24.03.2008 14:35
President-Elects of Armenia and Russia Serge Sargsyan and Dmitry
Medvedev had a meeting in Kremlin today. This was Serge Sargsyan’s
first foreign visit after his victory in the presidential elections.
The fact that you are paying your first visit to Russia is a
unique symbol of importance of Armenian-Russian ties," Dmitry
Medvedev said. The Russian President-Elect expressed hope that the
Armenian-Russian relations will continue developing in the future.
"We are ready to develop our relations in the future," RA
President-Elect Serge Sargsyan said in response.
The discussions in Moscow mainly focus on world and regional
issues, especially in the view of Armenia’s forthcoming presidency
of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, security in the
South Caucasus, as well as the economic and investment cooperation,
including in the field of energy.
Serge Sargsyan will meet also the President of Russia Vladimir Putin
and Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov.
"The intensiveness and productivity of contacts is obviously confirmed
by the willingness of the Armenian and Russian sides to ensure the
succession of the course of further development of reciprocally
beneficial partnership between Moscow and Yerevan in all spheres,"
a senior official of the Kremlin told ITAR-TASS.