ArmenPress
July 13 2004
RUSSIA AND ARMENIA CAN INCREASE MUTUAL TRADE, RUSSIAN PM SAYS
MOSCOW, JULY 13, ARMENPRESS: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail
Fradkov said today that Russia and Armenia have all the opportunities
to increasing mutual trade turnover drastically.
“We have been successfully co-operating in the economic sphere,
trade turnover has grown 30% as compared to last year, but we should
take additional measures to use the remaining opportunities – the
trade worth $200 million is not the limit,” Fradkov said in his
opening remarks at the Tuesday talks with Armenian Prime Minister
Andranik Margarian.
The Russian premier noted that Margarian’s visit to Russia will
become a landmark in Russian-Armenian relations. According to
Fradkov, this is a busy year in terms of meetings between the Russian
and Armenian leaderships. “The dialogue is constantly filled with new
contents, and I think that today’s meeting will be made the most of,”
noted the Russian premier.
Fradkov said today’s talks should result in specific economic
steps, agreements and efforts to solve the remaining problems in the
economic sphere. Mikhail Fradkov also remarked that the dialogue
would be maintained in such spheres as energy, gas deliveries, high
technologies, and military and technological co-operation.