OREANDA-NEWS. April 19, 2011. Today, at the K. Demirjian Sport and Concert Complex President Serzh Sargsyan participated at the first plenary session of the Armenian-Russian conference entitled “Towards new achievements in the interregional cooperation of the Armenian-Russian partnership”. The Conference is attended by the Head of the RF Presidential Administration Sergei Naryshkin, Head of the RA Presidential Administration Karen Karapetian, Co-Chairs of the Armenian-Russian intergovernmental commission RA Prime Minister Tigran Sarkissian and RF Minister of Transportations Igor Levitin, representatives of the Ministries, agencies, over 20 regions of the Russian Federation and marzes of Armenia, businessmen and non-governmental organizations.

The President of Armenia welcomed the participants of the conference, stressing that this large-scale event, which has brought together the leaders of central and regional state governance structures of the two countries, representatives of business communities and the general public, is being conducted in Armenia for the first time. According to Serzh Sargsyan, this is not the thing that attracts attention to the conference. First of all, it is conditioned by the special nature of the Armenian-Russian partnership and, certainly, by the sincere desire of people to further develop already existing close relations and simply enjoy friendship, just as old and good friends do.

“Our regular meetings with the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, incessant ties at all levels of the interstate cooperation confirm our mutual desire to develop our cooperation across the board - in political, economic, and humanitarian areas. There are over 1400 enterprises with the Armenian-Russian and entirely Russian capital. Investment portfolio is nearly 3 billion USD. And these indicators tend to rise; and this happens when the world economy has not yet recovered after the consequences of the global economic and financial crisis. Moreover, it is obvious that potential opportunities are much more extensive than the results that we are having today. We see such potential and prospects in the development of the relations between the regions our two countries. Today, the interregional cooperation involves all marzes of Armenia and over 70 administrative regions of the Russian Federation. It means that such format is wanted, it helps in the solution of practical issues, enhances attraction of new investments and new technologies, and boosts inventions,” President of Armenia said.

President Serzh Sargsyan and the Head of the RF Presidential Administration Sergei Naryshkin visited also the Armenian-Russian interregional exhibition of industrial innovations opened at the Complex, which for the first time presents numerous innovation programs and technologies developed in two countries.

After touring the exhibition, the Head of the RA Presidential Administration Karen Karapetian and the Head of the RF Presidential Administration Sergei Naryshkin attended at the ceremony of signing a number of bilateral cooperation documents intended to boost cooperation at the intergovernmental and interregional levels.

In the framework of the conference, organized are also round-tables which will conduct discussions pertinent to the role of the interregional ties in promoting trade and economic relations between RA and RF, transportation, communications, telecommunication, development of economic infrastructure, joint energy projects aimed at the strengthening of interregional relations, as well as at elucidating the role of interregional ties in the enhancement of humanitarian ties and development of tourism.