INDIA AND ARMENIA TO PARTAKE IN MINSK CELEBRATIONS

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Sept 7 2007
Belarus

Foreign delegations intend to take part in the celebration of the Day
of the Belarusian capital. Representatives of India and Armenia have
already arrived in Minsk.

As Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said to the journalists in
the national airport Minsk, India values highly the relations with
Belarus and intends to develop mutual contacts in different areas.

"We have such relations in the scientific field and will try to boost
their further development. The matter also concerns trade, economy,
education, culture and other sides of interaction," the Chief Minister
of the Indian capital stated in the interview to the First National
Channel. Ms Sheila Dikshit plans to hold several business meetings
today. The Indian delegation will visit the children’s surgical center
of hospital #1, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

Representatives of Armenia also aim to conduct some business meetings
in order to strengthen economic links with the Belarusian capital.

Minsk and Yerevan have an agreement on mutual cooperation, and
the current visit will promote bilateral relations, the delegation
representatives underscored.