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THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF MECC IN ANTELIAS
The General Secretary of MECC Dr. Gerges Saleh met with His Holiness
Aram I on Monday 13 March 2006 in his residence in the headquarters
of the Armenian Catholicosate. In this meeting, which precedes the
meeting of the Executive Committee of MECC, among several issues,
the restructuring of Council, Council-member churches relations,
and Christian-Muslim dialogue were given a particular attention.
His Holiness Aram I shared with the General Secretary the following
perspectives:
1- The restructuring of the MECC is a must. In this process, the new
realities of the region and the concerns and needs of the churches
must be taken seriously into account. The churches must become fully
part of this process.
2- Ecumenical partnership with the western churches, ecumenical
organizations and partners is vital for the Council in many
respects. We need to deepen and enlarge the scope of this
partnership. However the particularity and integrity of our ecumenical
work must be clearly spelled out by establishing our own priorities,
our own methodologies and our own way of organizing the ecumenical
life and work in the Middle East.
3- The Christian-Muslim dialogue must remain a major area of priority
concern. The Council must organize the dialogue in a way that member
churches are directly engaged in this important process.
His Holiness Aram I also met Mr. Gaby Habib, the former General
Secretary of MECC. Actually, Mr. Habib resides in Washington and he is
engaged in ecumenical activities, particularly with those communities
and churches who have their headquarters in the Middle East. His
Holiness emphasized the importance of deepening the collaboration
between the churches of the Middle East and the USA in general, and
the Orthodox churches in particular. His Holiness welcomed the new
ecumenical process namely, Acting Churches Together in the USA. He
said that all the churches of the USA must take part in this process
and in all ecumenical initiatives and actions. Ecumenism should be
an open space for all churches. Otherwise, ecumenism is used for
non-ecumenical purposes.
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The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates
of the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the
history and mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer
to the web page of the Catholicosate, The
Cilician Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is
located in Antelias, Lebanon.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ADRP APPLIES TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN RELATION TO ARMENIAN ECOLOGICAL TERROR
Today, Azerbaijan
March 14 2006
The Azerbaijan Democratic Reforms Party (ADRP) sent an adress to
the EU, CE, OSCE and other international organizations in Europea in
relation to illegal acts at the occupied territories of Azerbaijan
by Armenians.
The conducted investigations revealed that Armenians cut the
plane forest in the Besitchay state preserve, located in the
Armenian-occupied Zangilan region. The occupants opened a woodshop
the territories of the Razdere village, Zangilan region, and use the
forest as raw materials for the workshop.
The Besitchay is single plane forest in Europe. According to
specialists, restoration of the forest will take centuries.
ADRP informed the leadership of the liberal and green parties of the
danger, as well as called on them to render assistance to Azerbaijan
in prevention of Armenian vandalism, Trend informs.
“This step, aimed at destruction of the single plane forest in Europe,
is ecological terror not only against Azerbaijan, but also Europe
and the world,” the message says.
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SECOND FRONT FOR ARMENIA TO BECOME FOURTH ONE FOR GEORGIA
Regnum, Russia
March 14 2006
“Claim for autonomy for the Armenian-populated Georgian region of
Samtskhe-Javakheti is an approach by the local population. There is no
political implication, all the problems are of social nature,” Head
of the Armenian Republican Faction Galust Saakyan has said on March
14. According to him, all the regional problems should be settled
on the basis of Armenian-Georgian talks. By the way, Galust Saakyan
disagreed with Georgian Parliamentary Speaker Nino Burjanadze, who had
said that “in Akhalkalaki District of Georgia there some forces that
try to increase tension between the Armenian and Georgian population.”
In his turn, Head of the National Revival Party Albert Bazeyan
announced that the Armenian authorities should try to influence the
processes at the top level to escape more aggravation of tension:
“we do not need another unfriendly neighbor.” “Apart from the social
issues of the Armenian population of Javakh mentioned above, there is
a series of political problems, issues concerning preservation of the
national originality. I think, the question of granting the status
of cultural autonomy to this region should be discussed,” said Bazeyan.
Meanwhile, as a REGNUM correspondent reports, representatives of Javakh
Union at a meeting with the press spoke for holding a referendum
in Javakheti, “that will make it clear what the Javakheti people
want: either living in Georgia, Armenia, Russia or another state, or
gaining independence.” Answering the question, whether the escalation
of tension in Javakheti contains a treat that Armenia would obtain
the second front taking into consideration the unsettled Karabakh
issue, members of the council said: “Why should we be afraid of the
second front? If we have a second front, by Georgia it will be the
fourth one.”
The Javakh Council also adopted a statement addressed to the Armenian
and Georgian authorities.
The statement says that “the Javakh Council has repeatedly appealed to
the Armenian authorities to pay appropriate attention to the problems
of Javakh Armenians and to acknowledge the political element in these
problems,” but “the appeals remained unanswered.” As the statement runs
further, the Georgian party “was inspired by the total indifference of
the Armenian authorities,” which made the former to be “more unruly.”
The authors of the statement do not rule out that “third parties,
in particular, Azerbaijan and Turkey, would participate in kindling
anti-Armenian activities.” The council puts responsibility for all
incidents to the Georgian government and the Georgian Orthodox Church.
The council condemned anti-Armenian activities and demonstration
of national discrimination, expressed its support for Armenians in
Javakheti and urged the Armenian government to call upon the Georgian
government to condemn and punish instigators of the anti-Armenian
activities.
It also called the Armenian authorities together with the Georgian
party to work out an action plan towards justified settlement of all
the problems of Javakh, including political ones.
The Javakh Council assured that it would its utmost to protect
Armenians of Javakh and Georgia, to prevent from expelling Armenians
from the region. It also promised “to make an appropriate counterstrike
to anti-Armenian provocations.”

DAY OF ARMENIAN PRESS
By Marietta Makarian
AZG Armenian Daily #187
18/10/2005
It is already the second year that the Armenian journalists mark
the day of Armenian press. The government’s decision in 2004 made
October 16 the day of Armenian press, in honor of the first issue of
Azdarar magazine. In 1794-96 priest Harutyun Shmavonian started the
Armenian press.
After congratulating Armenian journalists on the press day, Astghik
Gevorgian, chairman of the Journalists’ Union, made public the names
of “Azdarar” prizewinners. The prize in periodical press nomination
went to editor-in-chief of Avant-Garde magazine Juliet Martirosian,
the prize for best regional paper went to editor of Lusardzak,
Fahrad Apujanian, the prize for TV journalism went to head of “Karot”
working group, Manuk Muradian, the prize for radio journalism went
to Gohar Martikian for “The Life Formula” program and the prize for
photo journalism went to Hakob Berberian of Golos Armenii for creating
the series of photos on Artsakh war.
Astghik Gevorgian informed that the laureates of “Golden Pen” award
make up the jury of both the “Golden Pen” and “Azdarar” awards. Only
the members of the Journalists’ Union of Armenia are eligible for
the awards.

THERE ARE VACANT PLACES
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400 civic officers have been resigned from their posts on the ground
of their being not correspondent to their posts.
“We must be able to include serious workers into the state service
system, especially into the civic system. They must also be able to
get proper knowledge in order to be able to face the challenges of
time. If there are demands, there must also be a chance to meet them”,
said head of the Civic Service Council Manvel Badalyan.
Today there are 7 000 civic officers in Armenia. 1/3 of them pass
trainings every year. By the way, in 2006 the salary of civic officers
will be raised by 50%.

NILANJANA S ROY: PINTER’S BIRTHDAY PARTY
Business Standard, India
Oct 17 2005
SPEAKING VOLUMES
The audience had been queuing for an hour in order to hear Harold
Pinter speak at Edinburgh. This was 2002; the Iraq invasion was in
progress and phrases like “freedom-loving people” and “axis of evil”
were the common currency of the day.
Pinter had just recovered from major surgery for cancer of the
oesophagus, and written a poem-Cancer Cells-to celebrate, his first
published poem in decades. We expected him to speak about his fight
with cancer, which he did, eloquently and movingly.
And then he moved on to the matter of the US war in Iraq, and made
his strong opposition perfectly clear. Pinter likened Tony Blair’s
plans to bomb Iraq to an act of “premeditated murder”.
He spoke of the war as an exercise in power, he spoke of the silence
and acceptance that greeted the ritualised killing of people outside
the “Western world” and he said: “I could be a bit of a pain in the
a***. Since I’ve come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be
even more of a pain in the a***.”
In the three years since his Edinburgh comeback, Pinter has kept that
promise. He has heckled Bush and Blair, campaigned against the war,
and written cheerfully obscene poetry slamming the US army’s tactics
in Iraq.
This record has helped many see the 2005 Nobel, awarded to Pinter
shortly after his 75th birthday, as one of the most politically
charged decisions in the history of the literature Prize. The Nobel
announcement was delayed by a week; there was speculation that the
Academy was considering Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish writer who’s in
trouble for speaking out against the Armenian genocide. (Turkey
officially refuses to accept that the mass killings of Armenians
occurred on the scale on which Pamuk and other observers point to,
and refuses to call those murders genocide.) There is now much
speculation, as one commentator put it, that this year’s Prize is a
rebuke to America, an anti-US Nobel.
To see the Prize simply as a politically correct decision would be
to overlook Pinter’s work. That would be naïve: I cannot see how you
could possibly look at this century in theatre-and film-and ignore
Harold Pinter’s contribution. (He would probably be amused to know
that in Calcutta theatre troupes, a standard stage direction was:
“Aaro Pinteresque deen, dada!”, meaning that more Pinteresque pauses
were necessary.)
His first two plays, The Room and The Birthday Party, were ahead
of their time. Their themes would eventually become familiar,
much-imitated cliches of the stage-the damage that families inflict
on each other, the struggle for power in everyday domestic life, the
power of obsession, violence and the erotic, all of this presented by
a man who had a gift for listening to the silences that lie between
the lines.
The Birthday Party ran for just a week, initially, before being taken
off, and Pinter tells of how he met an usher on his way to one of
the last performances. She asked who he was; he said he was the author.
“Oh, are you?” she said. “Oh, you poor darling.”
The late Samuel Beckett, who greeted his Nobel Prize with dismay
rather than Pinter’s expletive-laden exclamation of delight, had
rather less trouble than those early audiences in recognising his
younger colleague’s talent.
He and Pinter met often; I would have liked to have been a fly on
the wall when Edward Albee, Beckett and Pinter spent a long evening
in a pub discussing the Marquis de Sade-the three great chroniclers
of the absurdities of modern times on the life of the sensualist who
took the pursuit of pleasure to lengths beyond the absurd. Pinter
sent Beckett his plays, in typescript, and Beckett reserved a special
place in his library for Pinter’s dedication copies.
Pinter’s plays, from The Room to Ashes to Ashes and Remembrances
of Things Past, are still performed today. If you’ve seen the film
versions of The Comfort of Strangers, The French Lieutenant’s Woman,
The Trial or The Last Tycoon, to name just a few of his adaptations,
you know that he is also one of the greatest screenplay writers of
our time.
What I’m looking at is not the work, or the man, but at his signature:
Harold Pinter, scrawled in a bold, unwavering hand right across the
page, the letters large and uncompromising. That signature, the mark
of the author, the political protestor, the man who refuses to back
down, is scrawled all across the 20th century.
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AZG Armenian Daily #186, 15/10/2005
Turkey
FRENCH INSURANCE COMPANY AXA OPERATES IN TURKEY TOO
On October 4 and 6, daily Azg informed that the French Axa Insurance Company
will pay $ 17 million to descendants of policyholders who perished during
the Armenian Genocide. The descendants had earlier filed a class action
lawsuit in California against Axa demanding compensation. The company then
agreed to pay by the end of the proceedings. The sides signed an agreement.
In accordance with the agreement, Axa is going not only to pay the owing $17
million but also provide aid of several millions to Armenian charity
organizations in France. Allegedly, the court of California will make a
decision in November based on the sides’ agreement.
On October 13, Turkish Public TV aired about this agreement; Zaman paper’s
response came on 14th. As it transpired from Turkish response, Axa has a
branch in Turkey called Axa-Oyak.
Founded in 1961 as Aid Union for Servicemen, Oyak is currently one of the
key companies with more than 40 plants, including machine-building ones.
Acquiring 11 percent of the company’s shares, Axa joined with Oyak and later
became co-shareholder raising the number of shares to 50 percent.
By Hakob Chakrian

Noyan Tapan News Agency
Oct 14 2005
VICE-SPEAKER OF TURKISH PARLIAMENT INTENDS TO REFUTE STATEMENTS MADE
BY HALIL BERKTAY IN YEREVAN IN HIS LETTER TO NATO PA
ISTANBUL, OCTOBER 14, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Turkish
press widely touched upon the participation of historian Halil
Berktay, Sabanc University lecturer, in the Rose Roth Yerevan seminar
of NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA). According to the “Marmara” daily
of Istanbul, the publications in Turkish press make known that the
Turkish parliament refused to send a Turkish delegation to the
seminar in order that Halil Berktay should become the only Turkish
participant of the seminar. Berktay left for Yerevan and speaking at
the seminar, supported the point of view that the leadership of the
Ottoman period pursued the goal of annihilating the Armenian people
by means of displacement and slaughter and the events of 1915 must be
qualified a genocide.
Simon Lu, NATO PA Secretary General, sent the text of Halil Berktay’s
Yerevan speech to Vahid Erdem, Vice-Speaker of Turkish Parliament,
after which Vahid Erdem gave commentaries at the October 12 press
conference. He reported that NATO PA had applied to the Turkish
parliament with a request of sending a delegation to the seminar, but
the parliament, putting forward reasons about a “long and unsafe
way,” decided that the Turkish delegation won’t participate in the
seminar. Erdem mentioned that indeed the delegation was able to come
to Yerevan but the parliament made the opposite decision motivating
it by the fact that Turkey has no diplomatic relations with Armenia.
After these explanations Erdem regretted to say that the organizers
gave the floor to “such a historian as Halil Berktay” whose speech
was “one-sided.” Objecting to Berktay’s viewpoints, Erdem declared at
the press conference that there is no study proving that Armenians
became victims of a genocide.
Vahid Erdem noted that the NATO organizers didn’t have a secret
purpose but they had better send someone who were “unbiassed” and in
this case there would be a more “sound” debate on the issue.
Vahid Erdem added that he is going to send a letter consisting of 3
pages to NATO PA Secretariate General, in which he will respond to
Berktay’s points of view.

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October 4, 2005
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ST. VARTAN CATHEDRAL HOSTS CELEBRATION OF ALPHABET
By Florence Avakian
Saint Sahag and Saint Mesrob would have been proud to know that 1,600
years after their invention of the Armenian alphabet, hundreds of young
Armenians in the New York City metropolitan area gathered at St. Vartan
Cathedral to pay tribute to their genius and their lasting contribution
to Armenian culture.
The celebration of the Feast of the Holy Translators (Tarkmanchats),
presided over by the Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the Diocese
of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern), took place in New York
City’s St. Vartan Cathedral on Saturday, October 8, 2005. More than 600
youngsters, teachers, and parents from parishes in New York, New Jersey,
and Connecticut attended the service and luncheon.
Saturday’s celebration is the kickoff for a year-long celebration of the
1,600th anniversary of the creation of the Armenian alphabet. The
Diocese is planning many activities and designing a variety of programs
to help families and local communities perpetuate our Armenian language
and culture.
The celebration of this milestone anniversary began with the Holy
Badarak celebrated by Fr. Mesrop Aramian, a priest of the Arstakh
diocese in Armenia who is editor-in-chief of the Gandzasar Theological
Center and founder and chairman of Armenia’s VEM broadcasting network,
which produces radio and television programs on religious and spiritual
matters.
A choir made up of youngsters from the New York City area joyfully sang
the soulful chants of the Yegmalian Badarak under the direction of St.
Vartan Cathedral choirmaster Khoren Mekanejian, with organ accompaniment
by Florence Avakian.
In his homily, the Primate emphasized that the true spirit of
Tarkmanchats is “our language, church, culture, nation. This is what
unites us. God gave us our alphabet so that our Holy Fathers could
translate the Bible into Armenian, and implement his word in our daily
lives. You must protect these gifts and multiply them.”
YOUNG ARMENIAN TALENT
Following the church service was a special reception held in the
Kavookjian Auditorium, which was decorated for the occasion with red,
orange, and blue balloons inscribed with the letters of the Armenian
alphabet. Welcoming remarks were made by Gilda Buchakjian-Kupelian who
with Fr. Untzag Nalbandian, director of the Diocesan Department of Youth
and Education, formulated the program.
Students from various Armenian day schools, Saturday Schools, and Sunday
Schools offered performances in song, dance, and recitation to the
enchanted crowd. Khrimian Lyceum student Talar Aydin skillfully
introduced the participants of the program in Armenian and English.
Students from New Jersey’s Hovnanian School started the program by
singing “Pari Louso Asdghn Yerevats” from Hayrig Mouradian’s songbook.
The beloved song “Ov Medzaskantch” was sung by New York Khrimian Lyceum
students Talar Aydin, Markrid Krikorian, and Christine Shalian.
Michelle Vartanian recited “Hayeren Khose” by Jacques Hagopian.
The Holy Martyrs Armenian Day School in Bayside, NY, was represented by
pupils Aline Voskeritchian and Diana Tashjian reciting Moushegh
Ishkhan’s “Hye Lezoon Dounne e Hayoun,” with a chorus singing “Srpotz
Tarkmanchatz” and “Mayreni Lezoo.” Adriana Demirdjian presented
Zahrad’s “Mesrobapooyr,” and Nicholas Chalikian recited “Im Hayotz
Lezoo.” Yeghishe Charents’ beloved and well-known poem, “I Love the
Sun-Baked Taste of Armenian Words,” was read by Heather Skolnick.
The program continued with Armen Torossian, a student in the St. Vartan
Armenian School in New York, reciting Hamo Sahian’s “Mer Lezoon,” and
recitation and singing by Armen Kasbarian, Vartan Torossian, and
Nicholas Arakelian.
>From the Sunday School of the St. Leon Church of Fair Lawn, NJ, Taylor
Candan recited “Ode to Mesrob” by Jacques Hagopian; and Jennifer
Oscherician narrated Vahan Tekeyan’s “The Armenian Language.” Students
from the Kirikian Armenian School in Tenafly, NJ, sang songs and recited
“Zarmanali Hye.” Aren Dabaghian from the St. Thomas Church Sunday
School in Tenafly, NJ, read “Our Alphabet” by Kevork Emin. Vahag
Kechian from the Armenian School at the St. Gregory the Enlightener
Church of White Plains, NY, recited “Mayrenee Lezoo.”
Several students from the St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian School in
Brooklyn, NY, participated in the program, including Serge Hagopian
reciting Nayiri Zarian’s “Hayotz Lezoon,” Arsen Danielian delivering “Im
Hayrenik,” Jacklin Yakshibikov resenting Hovhanees Shiraz’ “Kamin oo
Manushage”
A dramatic presentation, “A Word from Mesrob Mashdotz,” was recreated by
Varoujan Frounjian as he portrayed the legendary figure and implored the
audience to speak Armenian and read the Bible.
As teacher Lucia Gazal from the Holy Martyrs School pointed out, the
event’s whole emphasis was “about language. Our children will now be
inspired.”
DYNAMIC DANCERS
Just as the young students of the Armenian schools brought the words and
music of the Armenian masters to life, the youngsters of two dance
groups showed their talents with dynamism and artistry. The Akhtamar
Dance group took to the stage garbed in glittering silver costumes. At
the conclusion of their second number, the dancers unfurled a large
Armenian flag which encircled the group. The audience greeted this
dramatic action with thunderous applause.
A delightful surprise was the performance of the young dancers from the
Nork Children’s Center in Armenia. Showing professionalism and great
presence, this disciplined group of 52 youngsters, ranging in age from
10 to 19, brought the house down with their singing, dancing, and
drumming. On Sunday, they performed in a sold-out performance in New
York’s famed Town Hall, the first stop in a nationwide tour of the
United States.
Araxie Shamamian, a teacher in the St. Vartan Armenian School loved the
whole program and was especially moved by the Nork Children’s group. “I
was born in Armenia, and came here 28 years ago. Their singing made me
feel that I was back there again. They put the Armenian spirit and
unity in us,” she said.
Talin Manoukian, a teacher and parent from the Khrimian Lyceum, had
praise for all who participated, especially the group from Armenia.
“They brought something special,” she said.
Giving the memorable event’s closing prayer, Archbishop Barsamian
expressed gratitude to all the students, teachers, and parents, and to
the young performers from Armenia. “We were able to relive those
wonderful historic days,” he stated.
— 10/11/05
E-mail photos available on request. Photos also viewable in the News
and Events section of the Eastern Diocese’s website,
All photos by Berch Manukian
PHOTO CAPTION (1): Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the Diocese
of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern), blesses some of the
hundreds of young people who gathered in New York City’s St. Vartan
Cathedral to celebrate the Feast of the Holy Translators on Saturday,
October 8, 2005.
PHOTO CAPTION (2): Fr. Mesrop Aramian, a priest of the Arstakh diocese
in Armenia, who celebrated the Divine Liturgy during Tarkmanchats,
delivers communion to one of the hundreds of young faithful who attended
services at the St. Vartan Cathedral in New York City on Saturday,
October 8, 2005.
PHOTO CAPTION (3): A choir made up of youngsters from the New York City
area sing the music of the Badarak under the direction of St. Vartan
Cathedral choirmaster Khoren Mekanejian, with organ accompaniment by
Florence Avakian, during the Feast of the Holy Translators.
PHOTO CAPTION (4): Almost 600 young people, teachers, and parents
attended the luncheon celebrating the invention of the Armenian alphabet
at the Eastern Diocesan Center in New York City on Saturday, October 8,
2005.
PHOTO CAPTION (5): From the head table, Khrimian Lyceum student Talar
Aydin introduces performers during the luncheon marking the Feast of the
Holy Translators at the Diocesan Center in New York City. She was just
one of a number of area Armenian School, Sunday School, and day school
students to participate in the program.
PHOTO CAPTION (6): The Akhtamar Dance group takes the stage during the
Feast of the Holy Translators luncheon celebration at the Eastern
Diocesan Center on Saturday, October 8, 2005.
PHOTO CAPTION (7): Young dancers from the Nork Children’s Center in
Armenia celebrate the creation of the Armenian alphabet during the Feast
of the Holy Translators celebration at the St. Vartan Cathedral complex
in New York City on Saturday, October 8, 2005.
PHOTO CAPTION (8): Almost 600 young students, teachers, and parents
attended a special luncheon at the Eastern Diocesan Center in New York
City to mark the Feast of the Holy Translators on Saturday, October 8,
2005.

LEVITIN SURE ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN GOODS TURNOVER GROWTH POTENTIAL NOT USED UP
Pan Armenian
13.10.2005 20:18 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ All preconditions are available for promoting
mutually favorable Russian-Armenian trade and economic cooperation,
stated Russian Co-Chair of the Armenian-Russian Inter-Governmental
Commission, Transport Minister Igor Levitin at the opening of the
Commission session. Levitin’s statement specifically notes, “The former
six months of this year are characterized by considerable increase of
the growth rate of mutual trade, which is equal to 16.7% according
to preliminary data. Preservation of this dynamics will allow RF
become the leader among major trade partners of Armenia. Investment
cooperation keeps successfully developing and this promotes
commercial growth. Many of our CIS partners consider the trade
and economic cooperation between Russia and Armenia an experience
worth paying attention to. I am sure the potential of growth of the
commodity turnover is not used up. Russia does not cancel the matter
of gas supplies to Armenia in its agenda, as well as expansion of
trade of oil products that will allow enhancing the energy dialogue
between our countries. The normative and legal basis of cooperation,
including the organization of train-ferry communication between Poti,
Georgia and Kavkaz, Russia, forms good preconditions for that. Due to
a number of reasons the communication cannot show all its advantages
yet. However, I assure you that the Russian party will make all
efforts necessary for the ferry line to have demand in the system
of transport communication between our countries. I would like to
underscore the need to expand economic relations between Armenia and
its regions with the constituents of the Russian Federation.”
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress