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SERZH SARGSYAN: PARTNERSHIP WITH GEORGIA ONE OF PRIORITIES OF ARMENIA'S FOREIGN POLICY
June 18, 2014 | 17:28
President of Armenia Serzg Sargsyan believes by signing the Association
Agreement on June 27 and joining the Free Trade Agreement, Georgia
provides Armenian businessmen an opportunity to involve in the
European market and make investments in Georgia. This was stated
during Sargsyan's official visit to Georgia.
President Serzh Sargsyan made a statement for media during a joint
briefing with his Georgian counterpart Giorgi Margvelashvili.
"I would like to thank President Giorgi Margvelashvili for his
invitation and warm welcome. I am very happy to be hosted in Georgia,
a brotherly country.
Distinguished Mr. President, let me reaffirm our sincere desire
and commitment to working with you in the spirit of friendship and
mutual understanding. We attach great importance to our Georgian visit
within the framework of which we conducted and will definitely conduct
practical and effective negotiations and will have discussions on the
comprehensive agenda of the Armenian-Georgian relations. We have got
a wide range of issues and we will certainly be able to outline new
prospects for our mutually beneficial cooperation.
The consistent reinforcement of the Armenian-Georgian partnership is
one of the priorities of Armenia's foreign policy.
The fragile stability and peace in the South Caucasus region greatly
depend on the effectiveness and firmness of the Armenian-Georgian
cooperation. We have always respected each other's decisions
understanding that each of us is primarily concerned about
strengthening his own state and we have been happy about it since
Armenia and Georgia make each other stronger.
Active political dialogue is the best way to intensify economic
cooperation. Armenia and Georgia have already set up clear directions
in trade and economic cooperation, including transport and energy,
agricultural food recycling and numerous other spheres. Both in the
last and the current year we have recorded trade circulation growth
and I am confident that we still have a huge amount of underutilized
resources.
We emphasized the activities of the Armenian-Georgian
inter-governmental commission and different groups and agreed that we
should intensify those contacts and exchanges. This will give those
groups an opportunity to discuss the outcomes of the previously made
arrangements and of course, make new arrangements. We also touched upon
Armenia's involvement in the Eurasian region's integration processes.
We presented to our Georgian colleagues the works having already
been carried out in that direction, the upcoming plans and in that
context, the prospects of mutually beneficial economic cooperation
with Georgia. I strongly believe that by signing the Association
Agreement on June 27 and joining the Free Trade Agreement Georgia
affords Armenian businessmen an opportunity to involve in the European
market and make investments in Georgia. On the other hand, Armenia's
membership in the Customs Union opens up prospects for Georgian
businessmen to invest in Armenia in case if they have interest in
the Russian market or in markets of other Customs Union member states.
In the context of regional stability we put special emphasis on
international cooperation platforms and maintaining a balanced and
constructive approach towards the issues of reciprocal concern. This
is also very important.
I and the Georgian President agree that a comprehensive resolution
to every conflict is possible exclusively through peaceful means in
compliance with the principles of international law.
Of course, we also touched upon our humanitarian cooperation since
to put it figuratively, our cooperation in the humanitarian sphere
is even more important than that of the economic sphere because we
have lived in this region for a very long time and there have been
numerous cases of cultural penetrations, that is to say both the
Georgian and the Armenian cultures have been enriched. And surely,
I am very grateful to the Georgian President for accepting our offer
to organize a concert today in Tbilisi dedicated to the jubilee of
the great artist Sayat-Nova whose works are the striking illustration
of cultural penetrations.
I would like to express my gratitude for your warm welcome and again,
I am glad to be in Georgia, a brotherly country".
http://news.am/eng/news/215074.html
June 18, 2014 | 17:28
President of Armenia Serzg Sargsyan believes by signing the Association
Agreement on June 27 and joining the Free Trade Agreement, Georgia
provides Armenian businessmen an opportunity to involve in the
European market and make investments in Georgia. This was stated
during Sargsyan's official visit to Georgia.
President Serzh Sargsyan made a statement for media during a joint
briefing with his Georgian counterpart Giorgi Margvelashvili.
"I would like to thank President Giorgi Margvelashvili for his
invitation and warm welcome. I am very happy to be hosted in Georgia,
a brotherly country.
Distinguished Mr. President, let me reaffirm our sincere desire
and commitment to working with you in the spirit of friendship and
mutual understanding. We attach great importance to our Georgian visit
within the framework of which we conducted and will definitely conduct
practical and effective negotiations and will have discussions on the
comprehensive agenda of the Armenian-Georgian relations. We have got
a wide range of issues and we will certainly be able to outline new
prospects for our mutually beneficial cooperation.
The consistent reinforcement of the Armenian-Georgian partnership is
one of the priorities of Armenia's foreign policy.
The fragile stability and peace in the South Caucasus region greatly
depend on the effectiveness and firmness of the Armenian-Georgian
cooperation. We have always respected each other's decisions
understanding that each of us is primarily concerned about
strengthening his own state and we have been happy about it since
Armenia and Georgia make each other stronger.
Active political dialogue is the best way to intensify economic
cooperation. Armenia and Georgia have already set up clear directions
in trade and economic cooperation, including transport and energy,
agricultural food recycling and numerous other spheres. Both in the
last and the current year we have recorded trade circulation growth
and I am confident that we still have a huge amount of underutilized
resources.
We emphasized the activities of the Armenian-Georgian
inter-governmental commission and different groups and agreed that we
should intensify those contacts and exchanges. This will give those
groups an opportunity to discuss the outcomes of the previously made
arrangements and of course, make new arrangements. We also touched upon
Armenia's involvement in the Eurasian region's integration processes.
We presented to our Georgian colleagues the works having already
been carried out in that direction, the upcoming plans and in that
context, the prospects of mutually beneficial economic cooperation
with Georgia. I strongly believe that by signing the Association
Agreement on June 27 and joining the Free Trade Agreement Georgia
affords Armenian businessmen an opportunity to involve in the European
market and make investments in Georgia. On the other hand, Armenia's
membership in the Customs Union opens up prospects for Georgian
businessmen to invest in Armenia in case if they have interest in
the Russian market or in markets of other Customs Union member states.
In the context of regional stability we put special emphasis on
international cooperation platforms and maintaining a balanced and
constructive approach towards the issues of reciprocal concern. This
is also very important.
I and the Georgian President agree that a comprehensive resolution
to every conflict is possible exclusively through peaceful means in
compliance with the principles of international law.
Of course, we also touched upon our humanitarian cooperation since
to put it figuratively, our cooperation in the humanitarian sphere
is even more important than that of the economic sphere because we
have lived in this region for a very long time and there have been
numerous cases of cultural penetrations, that is to say both the
Georgian and the Armenian cultures have been enriched. And surely,
I am very grateful to the Georgian President for accepting our offer
to organize a concert today in Tbilisi dedicated to the jubilee of
the great artist Sayat-Nova whose works are the striking illustration
of cultural penetrations.
I would like to express my gratitude for your warm welcome and again,
I am glad to be in Georgia, a brotherly country".
http://news.am/eng/news/215074.html