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IRAN, ARMENIA INK FIVE COOPERATION AGREEMENTS
FNA
19:26 | 2011-12-23
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Armenian
counterpart Serzh Sargsyan signed several cooperation agreements just
a few hours after the former arrived in Armenia on Friday.
President Ahmadinejad first met with his Armenian counterpart Sargsyan
and then signed five bilateral agreements amid growing cooperation
between Tehran and Yerevan.
One of the agreements scheduled the start of construction work on a
hydro-electric power station on the Arax river which runs along the
two countries' border.
Other agreements included joint cooperation between the Institute
of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran and Armenia's National
Institute of Standards, cooperation in social welfare and affairs as
well as bilateral environmental cooperation.
Armenia has been developing closer ties with Iran. Trade turnover
between Tehran and Yerevan has been increasing, from $206 million (157
million euros) in 2009 to $273 million (209 million euros) last year.
This year it amounted to $300 million.
FNA
19:26 | 2011-12-23
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Armenian
counterpart Serzh Sargsyan signed several cooperation agreements just
a few hours after the former arrived in Armenia on Friday.
President Ahmadinejad first met with his Armenian counterpart Sargsyan
and then signed five bilateral agreements amid growing cooperation
between Tehran and Yerevan.
One of the agreements scheduled the start of construction work on a
hydro-electric power station on the Arax river which runs along the
two countries' border.
Other agreements included joint cooperation between the Institute
of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran and Armenia's National
Institute of Standards, cooperation in social welfare and affairs as
well as bilateral environmental cooperation.
Armenia has been developing closer ties with Iran. Trade turnover
between Tehran and Yerevan has been increasing, from $206 million (157
million euros) in 2009 to $273 million (209 million euros) last year.
This year it amounted to $300 million.