LAVROV: PUTIN TO VISIT ARMENIA IN EARLY DECEMBER

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Nov 18 2013

18 November 2013 – 6:08pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Armenia in early December,
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today after talks with his
counterpart from that country Edward Nalbandian.

Today’s meeting is considered by the Russian party “as one of the
key stages of preparation for the upcoming visit in early December of
the President of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Armenia”,
RIA Novosti quotes him.

Sergei Lavrov also commented on the preparation of Armenia’s accession
to the Customs Union and its participation in the formation of
the Eurasian Economic Union. “Today we can say that the process of
performing the necessary formalities, the beginning of the necessary
negotiations with the Eurasian Economic Commission is in full swing.

We dedicate ourselves to completing it in a timely manner”, the
Minister said.