Armenian premier: visit to Moscow extremely positive

YEREVAN, March 2. /ARKA/. Armenian Premier Tigran Sargsyan considers the visit of Armenian delegation to Moscow as extremely positive.

During the one-day visit of premier-headed Armenian government delegation to Moscow on February 27, Premier Sargsyan met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Russian Minister of Transport and Co-Chair of Armenian-Russian intergovernmental commission Igor Levitin, Chairman of the Russian Central Bank Sergey Ignatiev and a group of Armenian businessmen.

“We have discussed the whole range of planned issues, and all agreements intended were reached,” Premier Sargsyan told journalists in summarizing the outcome of his visit.

Many issues were solved quite quickly, Sargsyan said expressing gratitude to Russian colleagues for understanding of problems occurring in Armenia due to the global crisis.

The Premier stressed that all high-priority measures should be implemented the soonest possible, as “time is a most important factor”.

In the scope of the Moscow meetings, the sides considered all the issues of the agenda of Armenian-Russian intergovernmental commission.

During the meetings with Levitin, the whole range of issues of Armenian-Russian cooperation was discussed, among them energy sector, construction of the new nuclear power unit, concession management of Armenian railways, construction of the new railroad, road construction matters, agriculture, infrastructures, issue of “Mars” factory, Sargsyan said.

The sides established the existing problems, recorded the progress reached and the issues to proceeds with, the Premier said.  –0—