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ARMENIAN FM TO MAKE FIRST FOREIGN TRIP TO RUSSIAN APRIL 25-26
ITAR-TASS, Russia
April 22, 2013 Monday 07:17 PM GMT+4
- Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan will pay an official
visit to Russia on April 25-26 at the invitation of Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov.
The ministers will discuss further development of bilateral relations
and exchange views on pressing regional and international issues,
the Foreign Ministry said on Monday, April 22.
Nalbandyan is scheduled to meet with the leaders of the Russian
parliament. He will also give a lecture for faculty members and
attendees of the Russian Diplomatic Academy.
This will be Nalbandyan's first foreign trip after his reappointment
to this post on April 19.
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, who was reappointed on the same day,
said earlier that Armenia and Russia cooperate most actively in all
areas of interstate relations without exception. Over the past years,
Russian-Armenian cooperation has developed into a rather complex and
multifaceted structure.
He stressed that Russia plays a key role in ensuring Armenia's security
and has a leading position in its economy.
"Today Russia plays a key role in Armenia's security system and it
occupies a leading position in our economy," he said. "Russia is the
main investor in the Armenian economy, one of its main creditors and
one of the major foreign trade partners."
"We are interested to improve these relations further, which is fully
consistent with our national interests," the prime minister 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 also a big potential in joint development of the
agro-industrial sector in Armenia.
ITAR-TASS, Russia
April 22, 2013 Monday 07:17 PM GMT+4
- Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan will pay an official
visit to Russia on April 25-26 at the invitation of Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov.
The ministers will discuss further development of bilateral relations
and exchange views on pressing regional and international issues,
the Foreign Ministry said on Monday, April 22.
Nalbandyan is scheduled to meet with the leaders of the Russian
parliament. He will also give a lecture for faculty members and
attendees of the Russian Diplomatic Academy.
This will be Nalbandyan's first foreign trip after his reappointment
to this post on April 19.
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, who was reappointed on the same day,
said earlier that Armenia and Russia cooperate most actively in all
areas of interstate relations without exception. Over the past years,
Russian-Armenian cooperation has developed into a rather complex and
multifaceted structure.
He stressed that Russia plays a key role in ensuring Armenia's security
and has a leading position in its economy.
"Today Russia plays a key role in Armenia's security system and it
occupies a leading position in our economy," he said. "Russia is the
main investor in the Armenian economy, one of its main creditors and
one of the major foreign trade partners."
"We are interested to improve these relations further, which is fully
consistent with our national interests," the prime minister 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 also a big potential in joint development of the
agro-industrial sector in Armenia.