Kazakh and Armenian FM met in Astana

KazInform, Kazakhstan
June 2 2006

Kazakh and Armenian FM met in Astana

ASTANA. June 2, 2006. KAZINFORM. On June 1 Foreign Minister of
Kazakhstan Kassymzhomart Tokayev held a meeting with his Armenian
counterpart Vartan Askanyan, who pays an official visit to
Kazakhstan.

The sides debated urgent issues of foreign affairs and a wide range
of matters concerning bilateral cooperation in various domains,
Kazakhstan MFA’s press service reports.

As stated there, transport and energy collaboration may become
priority one.
According to Askanyan Armenia considers Kazakhstan as the Central
Asian leader. He underlined a need for deepening further bilateral as
well as multilateral interaction.

Kazakhstan and Armenia established diplomatic links back to 1992. The
fundamental documents regulating bilateral relations are Treaty on
principles of relationship and Treaty on friendship and cooperation.

Mutual striving for widening mutual benefit trade and economic
cooperation was highlighted during the first official visit of
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev to Armenia May 2001. A
great deal of agreements were signed then.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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