SPECIFIC WAYS OF ECONOMIC COOPERATION BETWEEN YEREVAN AND ASTANA OUTLINED
Pan Armenian
13.10.2005 18:38 GMT+04:00
/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.