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    ZUBKOV'S FIRST FOREIGN GUEST, ARMENIA PM, ARRIVES IN MOSCOW

    ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
    September 24, 2007 Monday 9:10 PM EST

    The first foreign guest of Russia' s new Prime Minister Victor Zubkov
    - Armenia's Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisyan - arrived for an official
    visit in Moscow. His plane landed at Vnukovo-2 airport at 19:15
    Moscow time.

    This is not the first time Sarkisyan visits Moscow. He visited
    the Russian capital more than once in the capacity of Armenia's
    defence minister to decide questions of cooperation in the defence
    area and interaction in the framework of the Collective Security
    Treaty Organization (CSTO). During the meeting with Viktor Zubkov,
    Serzh Sarkisyan will discuss specific trends of cooperation in the
    political and economic areas, Itar-Tass learned from the Russian
    government's press service.

    The Armenian prime minister is to meet with Moscow Mayor Yuri
    Luzhkov, with head of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom)
    Sergei KIriyenko, general secretary of the Collective Security Treaty
    Organization (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha, and secretary-general of the
    Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) Grigory Rapota.

    Serzh Sarkisyan retains the post of head of the Armenian part of the
    Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation between the
    Russian Federation and Armenia. He will tell a news conference at
    Itar-Tass about the results of the talks.

    The Armenian delegation includes minister of transport and
    communication Andranik Manukyan, minister of trade and economic
    development Nerses Yerinyan, defence minister Mikael Arutyunyan,
    deputy foreign minister Gegam Garibdzhanyan,

    Cooperation of the two countries develops on a bilateral and
    multilateral basis. Armenia, just as Russia, is for the strengthening
    of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), is a member of the
    Collective Security Treaty Organization.

    Russia is Armenia's main trading partner. The volume of trade between
    Russia and Armenia has doubled and will exceed 0.5 billion dollars
    by the end of the year, Igor Levitin said in Yerevan last week. The
    head of the Russian part of the Intergovernmental Commission for
    Economic Cooperation said that Russian investments into Armenia's
    economy increased. They amounted to 74 million dollars in the first
    six months of 2007.

    Armenia's direct ties with Russian regions develop successfully. Some
    70 subjects of the Russian Federation maintain bilateral economic
    ties with Armenia.
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