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    Russia, Armenia mull opportunities to boost cooperation
    By Vitaly Kuchkin

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    May 11, 2004 Tuesday

    MOSCOW, May 11 -- Russia and Armenia consider opportunities to boost
    cooperation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko
    said on Tuesday.

    Two-way trade increased by almost 35 percent last year. At the present
    time, Moscow and Yerevan exchange views regarding the prospects
    for implementing the property- against-debt agreement, as well as
    interaction in the sphere of energy and investments, Yakovenko said.

    The parties attach an important significance to the solution of
    transport problems, in particular by resuming the railroad service
    between Russia and Armenia through Georgia.

    Special attention is paid to the coordination of efforts aimed at
    normalizing the situation in the Caucasus, and the opening of the
    potential of multi-lateral cooperation, including within the framework
    of the Caucasian Four."

    This includes the prevention of new conflicts and the settlement of
    old ones such as in Nagrony Karabakh, Yakovenko said.

    He said interaction within the frameworks of the Commonwealth of
    Independent States (CIS), the Collective Security Treaty Organization
    (CSTO), and Eurasian Economic Community where Armenia received the
    status of observer, was an important sphere of cooperation between
    the two countries.

    "Russia and Armenia are resolved to make task-oriented moves in the
    fight against terrorism," the diplomat said, adding that "the political
    interaction in the sphere of anti-terrorist fight is strengthened by
    effective practical cooperation between secret services."
    From: Baghdasarian
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