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    SERZH SARGSYAN: WE SHOULD ALWAYS SEEK ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN POLITICAL RELATIONS' BEING MUCH HIGHER THAN ECONOMIC ONES

    Noyan Tapan
    Oct 21, 2008

    YEREVAN, OCTOBER 21, NOYAN TAPAN. The indices of Armenian-Russian
    economic cooperation are very impressive, but we should always seek
    Armenian-Russian political relations' being at a much higher level,"
    RA President Serzh Sargsyan stated at the October 21 press conference,
    in response to journalists' questions. "It is time to speak about
    joint bold, large-scale programs," he said mentioning as an example
    that construction of a new nuclear power plant, railway was spoken
    about during his private talk to the RF President. "The economic
    relations are impressive but have a tendency of being inferior to
    the political relations," Serzh Sargsyan said, to which his Russian
    counterpart responded: "Our task is to overcome that tendency."

    The RA President also said that Armenia's strategic relations with
    Russia did not impede establishment and development of its relations
    with other states. "I think the level of the current relations is very
    good but I would like our relations to be model and not demonstrative,"
    the RA President said. He did not agree to the view voiced, according
    to which Armenia's relations with Russia are forced. "It is never
    possible to find friends by force, especially to maintain," the RA
    President said mentioning that Armenia-Russia relations are open,
    transparent, and reliable: "The strength of our friendship is in
    mutual confidence," he said.

    RF President Dmitry Medvedev, in his turn, said that "very high allied,
    friendly relations between the two countries maybe are forced, but have
    been forced during several centuries, it is clear that such relations
    are dear, we are not only friends, but also neighbors, partners," he
    said emphasizing that the two countries' relations have been checked by
    history and time, not only pragmatic, international and even domestic
    calculation, but centuries-old friendship is behind the relations,
    which is the most valuable, which "we are obliged to keep for ever."
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