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    Noyan Tapan News Agency
    Sept 21 2005

    ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER APPRECIATES UAE'S BALANCED FOREIGN POLICY


    YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 21, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The delegation
    headed by Doctor Sultan ben Mohammad al-Kasimi, the emir sheikh of
    Sharzha and a member of the Supreme Council of the United Arab
    Emirates (UAE), was received on September 20 by the RA Prime Minister
    Andranik Margarian.

    Expressing satisfaction at Armenia's current relations with many Arab
    states, including the UAE, the sides pointed out such achievements
    registered in recent years as the activization of high-level mutual
    visits, the signing of several dozens of agreements on cooperation in
    various spheres, the existing mutually beneficial cooperation within
    the framework of international organizations, and the holding of
    regular diplomatic consultations. They underlined that the friendship
    and cultural and trade links between the Armenian and Arab peoples
    that have deep historical roots are greatly conducive to the
    development of bilateral relations and international contacts.

    A. Margarian appreciated the balanced foreign policy conducted by the
    UAE at both the regional and international levels.

    The interlocuters indicated education, science, culture, tourism, and
    the export of agricultural products as the most perspective spheres
    regarding the relations between the two countries. The Prime Minister
    expressed a confidence that the current visit of Sultan al-Kasimi, as
    well as Sharzha Culture Days being held now in Armenia will become a
    new stimulus for developing the cooperation and promoting the
    cultural, scientific and educational contacts between the two
    countries and allowing their peoples to better understand each other.
    A. Margarian attached importance to the establishment of the Arab
    Cultural Center in Armenia, expressing gratitude to Sultan al-Kasimi
    for his willingness to participate in its financing. He also thanked
    the emir of Sharzha for allocating a land area in Sharzha in 1995 for
    the purpose of building an Armenian church, which has been the only
    one in the UAE so far.

    According to the RA Government Information and PR Department, the
    sides also addressed the issue of opening the UAE's embassy in
    Armenia. Noting that Armenia opened its embassy in Abu Dhabi as far
    back as 2000, A. Margarian expressed a hope that the UAE's government
    will also establish its embassy in Yerevan in the near futiure,
    especially as a land plot has already been allocated for this purpose
    by the Armenian side.
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