Prime Minister: Armenia is interested in trilateral cooperation with Iran and Turkmenistan
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As the press office of the Armenian Government reports, Karapetyan stressed that there are all opportunities for increasing Armenia's commodity turnover with Iran and Turkmenistan.
"This first meeting in the new year demonstrates the significance of our cooperation," Karapetyan stressed, pointing at the high level of political interaction among the three states, which allows promoting trilateral economic cooperation.
The ambassadors of Iran and Turkmenistan congratulated Karen Karapetyan and Armenian people on the New Year and Christmas holidays. They noted that their governments give high priority to promotion of partnership with Armenia and they are willing to discuss the further steps to that end. The interlocutors discussed the opportunities and prospects of development of trilateral cooperation in power engineering.
In particular, the meeting covered issues related to supply of energy resources and implementation of joint programs. The sides agreed to set up a working group to discuss specific projects. Karen Karapetyan thanked the ambassadors for their position and also stressed the importance of activities of the intergovernmental commissions, which are an effective platform to implement the outlined programs. Karapetyan expressed his condolences to the Iranian ambassador over the death of the former president of Iran Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.