ANALYST: ARMENIA IS BECOMING CHINA’S IMPORTANT PARTNER IN SOUTH CAUCASUS
15:13, 30.03.2015
YEREVAN. – If the South Caucasus sector of the Silk Road crosses
through Armenia, this will open good prospects for the country’s
development, analyst Naira Lazarian said at a press conference
on Monday.
Reflecting on President Serzh Sargsyan’s recent state visit to China,
the analyst noted that the Silk Road economic zone holds good prospects
for the development of the country.
“And it’s very good that Armenia has expresses readiness to definitely
join this project, since it has been the Silk Road’s important transit
point for centuries, and in the 21st century, it will be good if it
can restore this position of its in the region,” Lazarian noted.
In her words, the Armenian-Chinese relations have risen to a new
level of cooperation.
“Armenia is becoming China’s important partner in the South Caucasus,”
Naira Lazarian stressed. “Since Armenia is an EEU [i.e. Russia-led
Eurasian Economic Union] member, the Silk Road is completely compatible
with the economic processes from this viewpoint, and it can have a
strategic importance for the country.”
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