ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER HELD MEETINGS WITH CIS GOVERNMENT HEADS

Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Margarian held a number of meetings with his colleagues from the Commonwealth states during the sitting of the CIS governments’ heads in Choplon-Ata (Kirghizia). In part, during the meeting with Georgia’s Premier Zurab Zhvania the parties arrived at preliminary agreement to hold the recurrent sitting of the inter-parliamentary commission for the Armenia-Georgian economic cooperation this May. The Armenian Prime Minister also met with his newly appointed colleague Mikhail Fradkov. The parties discussed the issues referring to the process of passing of some Armenian entities to Russia to pay off the state debt and also Armenia’s joining to the North-South transport corridor. The Premiers underscored the importance of enlarging the trucking industry and realization of Caucasus harbor construction project as well as restoration of the Abkhazian sector of the Georgian railway. A. Margarian also invited M.Fradkov to Armenia.