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  • Zubkov, Sarkisyan To Discuss Polit, Econ Cooperation Tue

    ZUBKOV, SARKISYAN TO DISCUSS POLIT, ECON COOPERATION TUE

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    September 25, 2007 Tuesday

    Russia's new Head of Government Viktor Zubkov is to meet with his
    first foreign guest -- Armenia's Prime Minister Serge Sarkisyan --
    here on Tuesday.

    Sarkisyan arrived in Moscow on Monday night for the first time as
    Premier although he had visited the Russian capital repeatedly before
    as Defence Minister.

    A Russian government press service official has told Itar-Tass that
    Zubkov and Sarkisyan are to discuss concrete areas of political and
    economic cooperation.

    Also on Tuesday, the Armenian Premier is expected to meet with
    Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, RosAtom (Federal Agency for Nuclear Power)
    chief Sergei Kiriyenko, Nikolai Bordyuzha, Secretary-General of the
    Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), and Grigory Rapota,
    Secretary-General of the Eurasian Economic Community.

    Sarkisyan has retained the post of the leader of the Armenian side
    of the Russia-Armenia intergovernmental commission for economic
    cooperation. He is to relate the results of the upcoming talks at a
    news conference, which is to be held at Itar-Tass.

    The Armenian delegation includes Andranik Manukyan, Minister of
    Transport and Communications, Nerses Yeripyan, Minister of Trade
    and Economic Development, Mikael Arutyunyan, Minister of Defence,
    and Gegam Garibdzhanyan, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

    Cooperation between the two countries develops on bilateral and
    multilateral bases. Armenia, just like Russia, comes out in favour of
    strengthening the Commonwealth of Independent States and is a member
    of the CSTO.

    Russia is Armenia's main trading partner. Reciprocal trade turnover
    has doubled and may run at over $500 million towards the year's end,
    Igor Levitin said in Yerevan last week. The leader of the Russian side
    of the intergovernmental commission, stated that Russian investments
    in the Armenian economy had grown as well to run at $74 million in
    the first half of the year.

    Armenia's direct trade contacts with Russia's regions develop
    successfully: about 70 regions of the Russian Federation maintain
    bilateral economic contacts with it.
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