Armenian Economy Minister to negotiate export opportunities with IranOctober 23, 2010 - 14:09 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Economy Minister Nerses Yeritsyan is departing for Tehran on October 23 to discuss the forthcoming visit of Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan to Iran. Export opportunities with Iran will also be in the focus of talks. “The problem with export is not that Iran imposes legislative or tax limitations but that Armenia’s industrial potential is not great,” Minister Yeritsyan said. Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |