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    RIA Novosti, Russia
    Dec 3 2004

    IRAN PROMOTES ALL-ROUND CONTACTS WITH ARMENIA


    YEREVAN, December 3 (RIA Novosti) - Armenia's stability and economic
    development are highly important for Iran, Iranian ambassador to
    Armenia Ali Reza Haqiqyan said on Friday at the meeting with Armenian
    Defence Minister Serzh Sarkisyan, Secretary of the National Security
    Council under the president.

    A serious progress was reached within the framework of
    Iranian-Armenian economic cooperation, particularly just-begun
    construction of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline and commissioning of
    the second high-power transmission line, the minister's press
    secretary Seiran Shakhsuvaryan said.

    The ambassador noted that the latest meetings at the official level
    have generated new ideas for economic cooperation, such as the
    building of a railway between Iran and Armenia, as well as the supply
    of Iranian oil products (it is crucial for Armenia in view of its no
    simple relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey).

    The Iranian ambassador has promised assistance in arranging Farsi
    classes at Armenia's Vazgen Sarkisyan Military Institute.

    The Armenian defence minister noted that, if this project would be
    implemented, the Military Institute would be Armenia's second
    advanced-Farsi centre after the Yerevan State University.

    As regards programmes intended under the Armenia-NATO partnership,
    Sarkisyan reiterated that membership in the North Atlantic Alliance
    is not on the foreign policy agenda of Armenia.

    The sides also discussed matters of regional security, peaceful
    settlement of the Nagorny-Karabakh conflict.
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