Specific Ways of Economic Cooperation between Yerevan and Astana Outlined

PanARMENIAN.Net - Priority directions of economic cooperation between Armenia and Kazakhstan are outlined, stated Armenian Co-Chair of the Armenian-Kazakh Inter-Governmental Commission for Economic Cooperation, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture Sergey Avetisyan at the Commission session in Yerevan yesterday. In his words, the major goal of the Commission is to form a corresponding legal framework between the two countries. A trend toward increase of trade between Armenia and Kazakhstan has begun to show, the Kazakh Co-Chair, Deputy FM Nurlan Onjanov remarked. He informed that in Echmiadzin, Armenia a tinned food factory functions based on Kazakh capital. The parties noted transport questions among problematic ones. It should be noted that agreements on cooperation in tourism, agriculture, humanities, transport and mortgage crediting were signed during the session. The volume of commodity turnover between the two countries makes $18 million. The next meeting of the Armenian-Kazakh Inter-Governmental Commission for Economic Cooperation will be held in Astana in 2006, reported IA Regnum.