Armenian, Russian Presidents to discuss cooperationOctober 12, 2009 - 13:20 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Russian and Armenian presidents will discuss trade and military cooperation, prospects of energy projects and interaction in regional organizations in Moscow on Monday, a Kremlin source said Sunday. Nagorno Karabakh problem is also supposed to be discussed.Serzh Sargsyan will visit the Russian capital on an invitation from Dmitry Medvedev on October 12. "Regular confidential political dialogue at the highest level gives dynamics to the Russian-Armenian partnership," the Kremlin source said, adding that despite the global financial crisis, Russia retains the positions of Armenia's leading foreign economic partner. In January-August this year bilateral trade totaled $428.2 million - a 20.2% drop against the same period in 2008, but successful implementation of joint priority investment projects continues. Medvedev and Sargsyan met Friday during a summit of the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States in the capital of Moldova, with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev also taking part in the meeting chiefly dedicated to discussions of the Nagorno Karabakh issue, RIA Novosti reported. 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. |