Russian, Armenian President-Elects Meet In The Kremlin
ArmRadio.am
24.03.2008
President-Elects of Armenia and Russia Serge Sargsyan and Dmitry Medvedev had a meeting in Kremlin today. This was Serge Sargsyan’s first foreign visit after his victory in the presidential elections.
The fact that you are paying your first visit to Russia is a unique symbol of importance of Armenian-Russian ties,” Dmitry Medvedev said. The Russian President-Elect expressed hope that the Armenian-Russian relations will continue developing in the future.
“We are ready to develop our relations in the future,” RA President-Elect Serge Sargsyan said in response.
The discussions in Moscow mainly focus on world and regional issues, especially in the view of Armenia’s forthcoming presidency of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, security in the South Caucasus, as well as the economic and investment cooperation, including in the field of energy.
Serge Sargsyan will meet also the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov.
“The intensiveness and productivity of contacts is obviously confirmed by the willingness of the Armenian and Russian sides to ensure the succession of the course of further development of reciprocally beneficial partnership between Moscow and Yerevan in all spheres,” a senior official of the Kremlin told ITAR-TASS.