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29 August 2001 - 19:09 AMT

SERGE SARGSIAN AND ILYA KLEBANOV WILL DISCUSS PREPARATION OF VLADIMIR PUTIN’S VISIT TO YEREVAN

Co-Chairmen of Russian-Armenian inter-governmental commission on economic cooperation Ilya Klebanov (Vice-Premier of RF) and Serge Sargsian (Defense Minister, Secretary of Security Council of Armenia) will discuss the matters of preparation of President of Russia Vladimir Putin’s official visit to Armenia, which is planned for the middle of September. As reported by “Arka” agency, in course of Putin’s visit to Yerevan signing of the concept of commercial-economic cooperation between Russia and Armenia as well as a package of economic conventions is expected. “On encouragement and mutual protection of investments”, “On cooperation in the sphere of tourism”, “On cooperation between subjects of the Russian Federation and the regions of Armenia” are among them. Besides, it is also expected to sign agreements, according to which a number of Armenian enterprises will be passed to Russia entirely or partly in order to pay off the state debt of Armenia.