June 5, 2009 - 00:30 AMT
Sagsyan personally thankes Medvedev for USD 500 million credit
Today the meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Russia Serzh Sargsyan and Dmitriy Medvedev took place in St. Petersburg.

As the press service of the Kremlin reports, in the course of the meeting Dmitriy Medvedev said: "We have had many meetings recently, that is very useful for developing Armenian-Russian cooperation and for deepening personal ties. They help to make relevant decisions and today's meeting, I believe, will give a stimulus to questions, we will discuss.

We will speak about economy and the projects connecting our states, humanitarian sphere, regional questions, we will exchange views related to the most sensible and important topics. On the whole, we will develop our partnership relations furthermore. "

In his turn Serzh Sargsyan expressed his gratitude for providing Armenia with a USD 500 million worth credit, which can help the country to overcome negative consequences of the crisis to some extent.

"We persistently look for ways which will enable the Nagorno Karabakh people to live safely in their true motherland , to determine their destiny by themselves," Serzh Sargsyan said.

We value our allied relationship in the framework of CSTO , we firmly intend to deepent oeur relationship in political, military and technological spheres," Serzh Sargsyan said.