ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
January 9, 2007 Tuesday 06:21 AM EST
Armenia foreign policy priority is cooperation with Russia-FM
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan said on Tuesday that the
“development of military-political, trade-economic and humanitarian
cooperation with Russia is a priority of the republic’s foreign
policy.”
“Russia remains one of the largest trade-economic partners for
Armenia,” the minister pointed out at a press conference devoted to
the results of the past year.
According to Oskanyan, the volume of trade turnover between the two
countries accounted for 376.9 million US dollars in January-November
2006, as against 300 million dollars in the same period of 2005.
The foreign minister stated that the “Armenian community in Russia
makes a considerable contribution to the development of
Armenian-Russian relations.”
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