GEORGIAN AND ARMENIAN MINISTERS MEET IN DUSHANBE
Prime News Agency, Georgia
May 25 2006
Tbilisi. May 25 (Prime-News) – Andranik Marganian, Armenian
Prime-Minister and Giorgi Baramidze, Georgian State Minister for
Euro-Atlantic Integration met at the session of the council of CIS
leaders in Dushanbe, Tajikistan on Thursday.
Andranik Marganian and Giorgi Baramidze highlighted active bilateral
relations in different terms, Mediamax says.
The parties stressed that the fact that the Georgian-Armenian
intergovernmental commission for facilitation of economic cooperation
was presided over by the Georgian and the Armenian Prime-Ministers
was contributing to solution of a set of problems and elaboration of
modern programs in energy, transport and tourism.
The Georgian and the Armenian officials expressed their satisfaction
with the process of demarcation of the Georgian-Armenian frontier
line and said that the next session of the respective commission was
to be held in Yereven in August.
Talking about problems of population of Georgia of Armenian origin,
living in the southern Samtskhe-Javakheti region, Andranik Marganian
has once again confirmed readiness of the Armenian party to support
the government of Georgia for implementation of a package program
for rehabilitation of infrastructure in the region.
According to him, it would be reasonable to engage local industrialists
in construction works for easing of “palpable tension in the region”.