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LAVROV TO VISIT ARMENIA JUNE 22-23 TO DISCUSS IMPLEMENTATION OF TOP-LEVEL AGTS
ITAR-TASS, Russia
June 11, 2014 Wednesday 09:04 PM GMT+4
MOSCOW June 11
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay an official visit
to Armenia on June 22-23.
During the visit, Lavrov is scheduled to hold talks with the top
leadership of the country and his counterpart Edward Nalbandian. The
sides will continue "the substantive bilateral dialogue on further
development of allied cooperation and strategic partnership between
our countries", the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, June 11.
Special attention will be paid to the implementation of agreements
reached at the top and high levels, primarily during Russian President
Vladimir Putin's state visit to Armenia on December 2, 2013.
The ministry said that Lavrov's visit would give a new impetus to
mutually advantageous cooperation between the two countries.
Trade turnover between Russia and Armenia is growing steadily. "Last
year, trade turnover increased by 10.6 percent from the previous
year and keeps growing this year too. And Russia remains the leading
investor in Armenia," President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting
with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in May.
Putin recalled that during his latest visit to Armenia important
agreements had been reached and invited Sargsyan to "synchronise
watches" and see "what else needs to be done and where we should
speed up our work".
Sargsyan said Russian-Armenian relations were developing dynamically
and assured Putin that Yerevan would seek to intensify them.
"We are ready for active work. This is consistent with the historical
tradition of friendship between our nations," he said.
Russian-Armenian relations are regulated by more than 160 treaties and
agreements, including on friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance,
as well as on allied relations.
Before leaving his post in April 2014, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan said Russia and Armenia cooperated 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.
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.
Putin stressed earlier that Russian-Armenian relations had deep
historical roots, had grown into allied partnership and continued to
develop further.
He also expressed confidence that together Russia and Armenia would
be able to further strengthen their relations and expand cooperation
in various multilateral formats, including in the context of Armenia's
accession to the Customs Union.
Russia promised active support to Armenia's efforts to join the
Customs Union.
The Customs Union between Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia came into
existence on January 1, 2010. Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia are
to go on with economic integration and vowed to remove all customs
borders between their countries after July 2011.
ITAR-TASS, Russia
June 11, 2014 Wednesday 09:04 PM GMT+4
MOSCOW June 11
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay an official visit
to Armenia on June 22-23.
During the visit, Lavrov is scheduled to hold talks with the top
leadership of the country and his counterpart Edward Nalbandian. The
sides will continue "the substantive bilateral dialogue on further
development of allied cooperation and strategic partnership between
our countries", the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, June 11.
Special attention will be paid to the implementation of agreements
reached at the top and high levels, primarily during Russian President
Vladimir Putin's state visit to Armenia on December 2, 2013.
The ministry said that Lavrov's visit would give a new impetus to
mutually advantageous cooperation between the two countries.
Trade turnover between Russia and Armenia is growing steadily. "Last
year, trade turnover increased by 10.6 percent from the previous
year and keeps growing this year too. And Russia remains the leading
investor in Armenia," President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting
with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in May.
Putin recalled that during his latest visit to Armenia important
agreements had been reached and invited Sargsyan to "synchronise
watches" and see "what else needs to be done and where we should
speed up our work".
Sargsyan said Russian-Armenian relations were developing dynamically
and assured Putin that Yerevan would seek to intensify them.
"We are ready for active work. This is consistent with the historical
tradition of friendship between our nations," he said.
Russian-Armenian relations are regulated by more than 160 treaties and
agreements, including on friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance,
as well as on allied relations.
Before leaving his post in April 2014, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan said Russia and Armenia cooperated 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.
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.
Putin stressed earlier that Russian-Armenian relations had deep
historical roots, had grown into allied partnership and continued to
develop further.
He also expressed confidence that together Russia and Armenia would
be able to further strengthen their relations and expand cooperation
in various multilateral formats, including in the context of Armenia's
accession to the Customs Union.
Russia promised active support to Armenia's efforts to join the
Customs Union.
The Customs Union between Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia came into
existence on January 1, 2010. Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia are
to go on with economic integration and vowed to remove all customs
borders between their countries after July 2011.