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    PRESIDENT OF ROMANIA TO ARRIVE ON TWO-DAY OFFICIAL VISIT IN ARMENIA

    Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
    Oct 3 2006

    YEREVAN, OCTOBER 3, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. By RA President
    Robert Kocharian's invitation, President of Romania Traian Basescu will
    arrive on an official visit in Armenia on October 4-5. The main goal of
    the visit is to strengthen interstate ties, to plan primary tasks and
    directions of the economic cooperation between the two countries, to
    stimulate development of the scientific-educational and cultural ties.

    The official ceremony of meeting the President of Romania will take
    place at the RA President's residence on October 4. The ceremony
    will be followed by a private conversation of Presidents Robert
    Kocharian and Traian Basescu. Then the meeting with enlarged staff of
    the official delegations will take place, after what joint documents
    will be signed between the two countries' governments. The Presidens
    of Armenia and Romania will hold a joint press conference.

    During the Armenian visit, Traian Basescu will also visit the Armenian
    Genocide memorial complex, lay a wreath to the monument to victims,
    will visit the Armenian Genocide Museum, plant a tree in the Memory
    park.

    The President of Romania will meet on Octoner 5 with Prime Minister
    Andranik Margarian. His Holiness Karekin II Supreme Patriarch and
    Catholicos of All Armenians will receive the President on the same
    day. Traian Basescu will have a meeting with the professors' and
    lecturers' staff and students of the Yerevan State University.

    The delegation headed by the President of Romania will leave Yerevan
    on the same day.

    According to the information submitted to Noyan Tapan by the RA
    President's Press Office, Romania is one of the first countries
    recognized the independence of Armenia and established diplomatic
    relations with the RA. The Armenian-Romanian mutual relations have
    always been friendly ones which are assisted by the Romanian Armenian
    community having centuries-old history. About 20 thousand Armenians
    found refuge in Romania during the years followed the Armenian
    Genocide.

    Relations between Armenia and Romania are dinamically being developed
    at present. The political dialogue is especially active. 35 agreements
    and legal documents were signed between the two countries.

    Appreciating the present level of bilateral relations, our country
    is aimed to more strengthen the cooperation.

    RA President Robert Kocharian's state visit paid to Romania on November
    16-18, 2003, greatly assisted guarantee of continuous character
    and development of the bilateral relations. The two countries'
    heads attached primary importance to development of the economic
    cooperation. The Armenian-Romanian first business forum and opening
    of the exhibition of production of Armenian enterprises took place
    during the visit days.

    RA President Robert Kocharian participated on June 5, 2006,
    in Bucharest in works of the summit of the Black Sea Forun for
    Partnership and Dialogue organized by Romania.

    In the affair of development of the Armenian-Romanian relations,
    the Armenian side especially attached importance to bilateral
    contacts, guarantee of the continuous character of the high-ranking
    mutual visits, necessity of close cooperation of the two countries'
    representatives both in European structures and other international
    organizations.

    Armenia welcame efforts of Romania aimed to the EU membership and is
    full of hopes that the year of 2007 will become a historic year for
    the Romanian people. Armenia expects that Romania's EU membership
    will have a positive influence on deepening of the Armenian-Romanian
    relations as well.

    Unlike approaches of activization of the political dialogue,
    commercial-economic relations between the two countries develop
    slowly. Particularly, indexes of export from Armenia are low compared
    with ones of import. However, the trade circulation between Armenia
    and Russia grew in 2005 nearly twice, making 75 mln 537.9 thousand
    U.S. dollars, instead of 34 mln 260.6. thousand U.S. dollars of 2004.

    A number of important steps were taken during 2005 in the sphere of
    the bilateral economic cooperation. Particularly, constant sale of
    Armenian jewelry production was organized in Bucharest (the Yerevan
    Jewelry Factory LTD signed an agreement with the Romanian ELDORADO
    jewelry firm on exporting Armenian jewelry goods to Romania), a
    lot of Armenian brandy samples was given to a Romanian interested
    structure to study future possibilities of importing, an agreement on
    exporting Cigarone cigarrettes to Romania was reached (the Romanian
    DOCNET company was interested in cooperation with the Cigarone LTD),
    works are continued in the direction of going on importing Romanian
    furniture (the World of Furniture LTD imports Romanian furniture to
    Armenia), medicine (an agreement on exporting medicine from Romania
    to Armenia was signed in 2005 between the Romanian ROMFARMACHIM and
    Armenian LAMBRON FARMIMPEX companies) and other goods in Armenia. The
    Romanian DELTAYEL company is interested in cooperation in the sphere
    of telecommunication (some specialists of the company were sent on
    mission to Armenia in 2005).

    A beneficial legal field exists for the economic cooperation between
    Armenia and Romania, corresponding bilateral agreements are signed.

    As of Novemner 30, 2005, 37 Armenian-Romanian joint enterprises were
    registered in Romania, which made investment of 3 mln 538.1 thousand
    U.S. dollars in the economy of Romania.

    The Armenian-Romanian intergovernmental commission for
    commercial-economic and scientific-technical cooperation, the second
    sitting of which will take place in Yerevan on October 4, is of
    important role in the sense of activization of the commercial-economic
    relations. It will outline primary directions of development of the
    economic cooperation. Activity of the Armenian-Romanian Trade and
    Industrial Chamber founded in Bucharest in 2004 is also significant
    in the sense of deepening the economic relations.

    1780 people live in Romania. The community having almost millenial
    history is fully involved in the public life of Romania.

    The eparchic residence of the Romanian and Bulgarian Diocese of
    the Armenian Apostolic Church is Bucharest. A church built in 1915
    functions here. Armenian Apostolic churches function in Costanza,
    Suceava, Pitesti, Braila Galatz, Iasi. Armenian Catholic churches
    function in the city of Gerla, Transilvania, the community of which
    is mainly formed of Hungarians of the Armenian origin.

    The Romanian Armenian community organizes numerous community events,
    the bilingual, Armenian and Romanian, "New Life" and Romanian "Ararat"
    newspapers are published. The "Ararat" publishing house of the
    Romanian-Armenian union periodically publishes Armenian and Romanian
    authors' works on Armenian themes, mainly in the Romanian language. 102
    titles of books were published in 1994-2005, 10 of which in 2005.

    The Grigor Zambakhchian gallery belonging to the Romanian state and
    famous in the country functions in Bucharest. The Museum of Collections
    opened after the reconstruction in December 2005, in the center of
    Bucharest, where rich collections of Hurmuz Aznavourian, Professor
    Karapet Avagian, Beatrice and Hrant Avagian occupy significant places.
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