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    ARMENPRESS

    PRIME MINISTER AND IRANIAN AMBASSADOR DISCUSS BOOSTING
    COOPERATION

    YEREVAN, MAY 6, ARMENPRESS: Prime minister Tigran
    Sarkisian received today Iranian ambassador, Seyed Ali
    Saghayan, for discussion of a wide scope of issues
    relating to both countries' efforts to expand their
    partnership relationships.
    The government press office said the two men
    discussed also a set of other issues on launching new
    projects along with those in process.
    `The Islamic Republic of Iran gives its full
    support to new president of Armenia and your
    government. It also supports all directions which are
    deemed as priorities by your government's program,'
    the ambassador was quoted by the government press
    office as saying.
    Both men agreed that the annual $200 million worth
    trade and the economic partnership level in general
    are not satisfactory failing to comply with high level
    political relations between Iran and Armenia.
    They both underlined the importance of mutual
    investments and stepped up contacts between Iranian
    and Armenian businessmen. They agreed also that the
    existing cooperation between Armenian and Iranian
    provinces can be expanded as well.
    The ambassador spoke about two major international
    events that will be hosted soon by Iran- an
    international conference on transit transportation and
    a conference on urban issues asking the Armenian prime
    minister to send Armenian ministers to participate in
    both.
    The prime minister promised to send Armenian
    transport and communication and urban ministers to
    Tehran to take part in both events.
    The two men then emphasized the opening of consular
    services in Iranian Tebriz and Armenian Kapan. They
    also referred to a joint session of the
    Iranian-Armenian economic cooperation commission,
    slated for summer. The ambassador stressed also
    cooperation with countries in transition in the face
    of global rise of food prices in terms of mitigating
    its aftereffects. He said, particularly, that in this
    context Iran and Armenia can expand their agricultural
    cooperation.
    `We are eager and we would do everything in our
    power to deepen our relations with the neighboring
    Iran and raise them to a higher level which stems from
    both nations' interests. On one hand that will beef up
    our countries' national security and on the other hand
    it will promote economic progress,' Tigran Sarkisian
    said.
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