“We become a “member of the fifth” which has a market of 180 million. And we have an internal task: if we are not successful, the reason will be that we didn’t work well, rather than the incapability of the club. The potential there is quite huge. We want to work hard,” the PM said.
The Armenia-Iran and Armenia-Georgia power transmission lines will be commissioned in 2019, which will raise Armenia’s energy system to an entirely new level. The abovementioned programs will enable electricity transits, seasonal mutual supplies and exchanges, as well as other commercial transactions,” Serzh Sargsyan said.
“We observe extra-Syrian powers, which have their own interests and attempt to bring their interests and goals into life. Those contrasts have so deepened, actors are so different, their interests are so diverse that I’m not optimistic regarding the results at this stage. Just the contrary, contrasts more deepen with time.”
“The current issue is that he has many supporters, who like his this idea, and the other part of the society doesn’t like, as a result of which the country has been divided into two parts, and it isn’t clear what the developments are going to be like,” Harut Sassounian said.
“This issue has always been under his control, throughout these years Armenia-Turkey relations have been influenced by the policy pursued by Erdogan, thus, I consider results of the forthcoming elections won’t influence on Armenia-Turkey relations.”
The expanded meeting specifically discussed the proposal of the Armenian side to set up an Armenian-Russian investment fund with a view to funding Armenia’s priority economic sectors.
According to Voskanyan, Turkmenistan is among the world’s five leaders in terms of gas resources and is an important actor. However, it has issues in resource export.
“On presidential level Iran stated in Yerevan that this project is realistic. The only issue of the project is seeking finances, and if it fails today, it doesn’t mean that it won’t succeed tomorrow. Particularly, when according to experts the project is possible to implement within a small budget.”
“Dmitriy Anatolevich, taking the opportunity, I would like to invite you to pay an official visit to Yerevan, since I believe the vectors you mentioned and what we did not manage to mention at this press conference have great future. I am convinced everything will be fine. Thank you,” the Armenian Premier said.
“We confirm our commitment to the principles of Syria’s sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity. We express our confidence that there is no military solution to the Syrian conflict. The conflict settlement is possible only through a political process based on the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 2254,” he said.
