Armenian-Russian interregional forum to help search new models of business partnership, president says
19.04.2011,
18:31
The Armenian-Russian interregional forum is important because it provides up with a platform to jointly search for mutually beneficial models and effective forms of business partnership, Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan said today.
YEREVAN, April 19, /ARKA/. The Armenian-Russian interregional forum is important because it provides up with a platform to jointly search for mutually beneficial models and effective forms of business partnership and the goal is to expand cooperation and ties for a wider use of our economic and intellectual potentials, Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan said today in a keynote opening speech at the first Armenian-Russian interregional business forum that opened today in Yerevan.
He said it is a practical forum and the interest in it is dictated by allied nature of Armenian-Russian relations and of course, by the desire of peoples in both countries to strengthen and deepen their contacts and simply be good friends.
He said regular meetings of Armenian and Russian presidents, other high-level government officials, permanent contacts on all levels show that both countries are aimed to expand their relations in a broad spectrum of political, economic and humanitarian relations.
The plenary session of the forum is attended also by chief of the Russian presidential administration Sergey Naryshkin. On the sidelines of the gathering a number of round table discussions will be organized to explore prospects for stepping up infrastructure, energy and humanitarian projects. The two sides are expected to sign a number of agreements. The most important of them is the memorandum to be signed by South Caucasus Railways company operating Armenian railroads and the Armenian government on the construction of a 32 km railway stretch between Armenia’s third largest town of Vanadzor and Fioletovo.
The gathering is attended by Tigran Sarkisian, Russian minister for regional development Viktor Basargin, Russian transport minister Igor Levitin, heads of Armenian and Russian government agencies, governors, business people, experts and representatives of non-governmental organizations.
A Russian-Armenian fair of innovation has opened on the fringes of the forum; also Russian Sukhoi air maker was to deliver the first Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger aircraft to Armenia’s national carrier Armavia today.
The South Caucasus Railway is to open its renovated and upgraded infrastructure diagnosis center and officials of both countries will also attend the opening of a monument to Russian soldiers died in the 1827 Russian-Persian war near the town of Etchmiadzin. -0-
He said it is a practical forum and the interest in it is dictated by allied nature of Armenian-Russian relations and of course, by the desire of peoples in both countries to strengthen and deepen their contacts and simply be good friends.
He said regular meetings of Armenian and Russian presidents, other high-level government officials, permanent contacts on all levels show that both countries are aimed to expand their relations in a broad spectrum of political, economic and humanitarian relations.
The plenary session of the forum is attended also by chief of the Russian presidential administration Sergey Naryshkin. On the sidelines of the gathering a number of round table discussions will be organized to explore prospects for stepping up infrastructure, energy and humanitarian projects. The two sides are expected to sign a number of agreements. The most important of them is the memorandum to be signed by South Caucasus Railways company operating Armenian railroads and the Armenian government on the construction of a 32 km railway stretch between Armenia’s third largest town of Vanadzor and Fioletovo.
The gathering is attended by Tigran Sarkisian, Russian minister for regional development Viktor Basargin, Russian transport minister Igor Levitin, heads of Armenian and Russian government agencies, governors, business people, experts and representatives of non-governmental organizations.
A Russian-Armenian fair of innovation has opened on the fringes of the forum; also Russian Sukhoi air maker was to deliver the first Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger aircraft to Armenia’s national carrier Armavia today.
The South Caucasus Railway is to open its renovated and upgraded infrastructure diagnosis center and officials of both countries will also attend the opening of a monument to Russian soldiers died in the 1827 Russian-Persian war near the town of Etchmiadzin. -0-
