October 14, 2004 - 19:01 AMT
ARMENIA SATISFIED WITH PARTICIPATION IN NORTH-SOUTH INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT CORRIDOR
Today Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Margarian received the delegation headed by co-chair of the Armenian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation, Russian Minister of Transport Igor Levitin. As reported by the press service of the Armenian government, during the meeting the parties with satisfaction marked the decision by the RF government on Armenia's joining to the North-South transport corridor. Together with Commission Armenian co-chair, Defense Minister Serge Sargsian, I. Levitin presented to the Premier a range of issues referring, in part, to the long-term program of the economic cooperation between Armenia and Russia as well as the present conditional contractual-legal field, which were included in the protocol on the outcomes of the meeting. A. Margarian in his turn touched upon the soonest retooling of the enterprises, which Armenia passed to Russia to pay off the state debt, and noted of the necessity of their soonest restart. The participants of the meeting also attended the issues of transport communication between Armenia and Russia as well as the economic problems, which emerged due to the closing of the Verkhny Lars checkpoint at the Russian-Georgian border. To note, Armenian government head said he hopes for the efficient settlement of all the problems accumulated.