Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has attached particular importance to the signing of several agreements with friendly Yerevan, he said during his meeting with reporters at the City Hall. "The leaders of our states have defined the relations between Armenia and Russia as strategic partnership," Yuri Luzhkov emphasized.

He said relations between Moscow and Yerevan, as well as Moscow and various Armenian firms are the most intense in the former Soviet space. He agreed with Gagik Beglaryan that in recent years much has been done. "We are working together to create a wholesales center, a strategic element for trade and economic ties," Luzhkov said.

"I hope this year we are together not only to complete the construction of the Armenian church complex in Moscow, but the Moscow City Government has agreed to ensure cultural services for the Armenian Diaspora within the monastery complex, Mayor Luzhkov said.