Armenia Keeps Friendly Relations with Arab States

PanARMENIAN.Net - The goal of cooperation with Middle-Eastern countries in 2006 was keeping and deepening the current level of political dialog, guarantying mutual support in international organizations, says the RA MFA annual report on Armenia's foreign activities in 2006. The document underlines that the high level of political, scientific and cultural ties between Armenia and Egypt was kept in 2006. "For the fist time Armenian companies participated in the 10th international exhibition of informational technologies in Cairo on February, and in commemoration of 1600th anniversary of Armenian Alphabet an exhibition was held in Alexandrine library on Armenian Medieval manuscripts of Matenadaran," says the report.



The report draws attention to the relations with Lebanon and reminds, that according to the decision of the Armenian government, Beirut was given humanitarian aid during Israeli aggression. Particularly, Lebanon was given 7.5 tones medicines and medical equipment, which totally was worth 27 million AMD. During the war some 850 peoples were taken from Lebanon and Israel to Armenia by 'Armavia' air company flights.



The report also touches upon the peacekeeping mission of Armenia in Iraq. "According to the December resolution of the RA NA the Armenian peacekeepers, totally 46 people-combat engineers, drivers and doctors, will continue their mission in Iraq during 2007," says the report.