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Armenia can triple its exports to Russia, Tatul Manaseryan says
YEREVAN, August 25. / ARKA /. Armenia can triple its exports to Russia
by adding products of military-industrial complex to the export of
traditional agricultural products, according to Tatul Manaseryan, the
head of Yerevan-based think-tank called Alternative.
Earlier this month Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered one-year
limitations on food and agricultural imports from countries that have
issued sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine. The ban
extends to all U.S. agricultural imports and to fruits and vegetables
from the European Union.
Speaking at a news conference today Manaseryan argued that if Armenia
manages to integrate into the military-industrial complex of Russia by
offering its scientific and technical products 'because Western
sanctions against Russia include also technology', it will succeed
dramatically because 'of unlimited demand for high-tech products in
Russia.".
According to Manaseryan, all these questions should be raised and
discussed during a visit by Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev to
Armenia, scheduled for September 8-9.
In a related development Gagik Makaryan, the chairman of the National
Union of Employers, said today the Russian market may help Armenian
companies to increase production of wines, juices, mineral water and
canned food by 30 percent this year alone and to double the output in
2015.
According to the National Statistical Service, Armenia's trade
turnover with Russia in the first half of 2014 amounted to $596
million, a decrease of 0.5 percent compared to the same period last
year. Exports from Armenia to Russia dropped by 6.4 percent to $133.9
million, while imports from Russia grew by 1.4 percent to $462
million.-0-
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YEREVAN, August 25. / ARKA /. Armenia can triple its exports to Russia
by adding products of military-industrial complex to the export of
traditional agricultural products, according to Tatul Manaseryan, the
head of Yerevan-based think-tank called Alternative.
Earlier this month Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered one-year
limitations on food and agricultural imports from countries that have
issued sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine. The ban
extends to all U.S. agricultural imports and to fruits and vegetables
from the European Union.
Speaking at a news conference today Manaseryan argued that if Armenia
manages to integrate into the military-industrial complex of Russia by
offering its scientific and technical products 'because Western
sanctions against Russia include also technology', it will succeed
dramatically because 'of unlimited demand for high-tech products in
Russia.".
According to Manaseryan, all these questions should be raised and
discussed during a visit by Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev to
Armenia, scheduled for September 8-9.
In a related development Gagik Makaryan, the chairman of the National
Union of Employers, said today the Russian market may help Armenian
companies to increase production of wines, juices, mineral water and
canned food by 30 percent this year alone and to double the output in
2015.
According to the National Statistical Service, Armenia's trade
turnover with Russia in the first half of 2014 amounted to $596
million, a decrease of 0.5 percent compared to the same period last
year. Exports from Armenia to Russia dropped by 6.4 percent to $133.9
million, while imports from Russia grew by 1.4 percent to $462
million.-0-
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