ARMENIAN PRESIDENT MET WITH NIKOLAY RYZHKOV

PanARMENIAN.Net - Today Armenian President Robert Kocharian met with Russian Co-Chair of the Armenian-Russian Interparliamentary Commission for Cooperation Nikolay Ryzhkov, reported the Press Service of the Armenian leader. In the course of the meeting R. Kocharian noted that by today the Commission has carried out a rather large amount of work and time has come for summarization and outlining the new steps of cooperation. The interlocutors discussed the possible terms of prompt and efficient launching of the enterprises conveyed to Russia, specifically Mars plant. Besides, the parties discussed questions of development of inter-regional cooperation, the operation of the Kavkaz-Poti ferry passage, increase of the goods turnover between the two countries, as well as noted the importance of steps aimed at involvement of small and medium enterprise into the investment field of Armenia. In his turn N. Ryzhkov shared impressions of the visit to the towns that had suffered from the earthquake, noting these have changed unrecognizably and the question of increase of employment opportunities became a priority task there. In his words, the expansion of the economic cooperation between Russia and Armenia will promote solution of that problem, too.