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ARMENIA COMMENDS COOPERATION WITHIN CSTO
ITAR-TASS
July 12, 2012 Thursday 01:01 AM GMT+4
Russia
Armenia "highly appreciates" cooperation within the Collective Security
Treaty Organisation (CSTO), Armenian parliament speaker Ovik Abramyan
said after talks with Russian Federation Council Chairperson Valentina
Matviyenko on Wednesday, July 11.
"This is acceptable to us and we are expanding our participation in
the CSTO," he said. "We develop particularly close relations with
Russia and we will continue to expand and deepen them," he added.
Abramyan stressed that Armenian-Russian relations "are at a very
high level" and expressed confidence that Matviyenko's visit would
"help further enhance" bilateral cooperation.
Russia plays a key role in ensuring Armenia's security and has a
leading position in its economy, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan said earlier.
"We are interested to improve these relations further, which is fully
consistent with our national interests," he said.
"Over the past 20-odd years we have not only preserved the
centuries-old friendship between our peoples but we have also enriched
it with new content and raised it to a qualitatively new level,"
Sargsyan said, adding, "Strategic partnership between Armenia and
Russia has crowned this friendship".
"We give priority among others to diversification of economic
cooperation between our countries. We are convinced that intensive
interaction in sectors that build up innovation potential will give
a boost to our economic cooperation. This will also allow us to fill
our strategic partnership and allied relations between Russia and
Armenia with new substance," he said.
Trade turnover between Russia and Armenia in 2011 had reached one
billion U.S. dollars.
The two countries have good prospects in many sectors of the economy,
primarily in the energy sector, the power industry, atomic energy,
and many other serious projects.
There is a big potential in joint development of the agro-industrial
sector in Armenia.
"The high level of the political dialogue and mutual desire to
strengthen our strategic partnership create a very good atmosphere
for further development of Russian-Armenian relations," President
Serzh Sargsyan said.
From: Baghdasarian
ITAR-TASS
July 12, 2012 Thursday 01:01 AM GMT+4
Russia
Armenia "highly appreciates" cooperation within the Collective Security
Treaty Organisation (CSTO), Armenian parliament speaker Ovik Abramyan
said after talks with Russian Federation Council Chairperson Valentina
Matviyenko on Wednesday, July 11.
"This is acceptable to us and we are expanding our participation in
the CSTO," he said. "We develop particularly close relations with
Russia and we will continue to expand and deepen them," he added.
Abramyan stressed that Armenian-Russian relations "are at a very
high level" and expressed confidence that Matviyenko's visit would
"help further enhance" bilateral cooperation.
Russia plays a key role in ensuring Armenia's security and has a
leading position in its economy, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan said earlier.
"We are interested to improve these relations further, which is fully
consistent with our national interests," he said.
"Over the past 20-odd years we have not only preserved the
centuries-old friendship between our peoples but we have also enriched
it with new content and raised it to a qualitatively new level,"
Sargsyan said, adding, "Strategic partnership between Armenia and
Russia has crowned this friendship".
"We give priority among others to diversification of economic
cooperation between our countries. We are convinced that intensive
interaction in sectors that build up innovation potential will give
a boost to our economic cooperation. This will also allow us to fill
our strategic partnership and allied relations between Russia and
Armenia with new substance," he said.
Trade turnover between Russia and Armenia in 2011 had reached one
billion U.S. dollars.
The two countries have good prospects in many sectors of the economy,
primarily in the energy sector, the power industry, atomic energy,
and many other serious projects.
There is a big potential in joint development of the agro-industrial
sector in Armenia.
"The high level of the political dialogue and mutual desire to
strengthen our strategic partnership create a very good atmosphere
for further development of Russian-Armenian relations," President
Serzh Sargsyan said.
From: Baghdasarian