SVERDLOVSK REGION DAYS TO BE HELD IN ARMENIA IN AUTUMN

PanARMENIAN.Net - Sverdlovsk Region Days will be held in Armenia in autumn, reported Ural media. The process of arrangement of the event was discussed today by region Governor Eduard Rossel and Armenian Ambassador to Russia Armen Smbatian. At a meeting in Yekaterinburg the parties also considered the work over the agreement on cooperation between Sverdlovsk region and Armenia. It will be submitted to the Russian Government June 1, 2005 for adjustment, reported the information department. In the course of the meeting E. Rossel told the guests from Armenia about the economic record in the region. He also drew their attention to the building being constructed in the center of Yekaterinburg, where trade representations of the CIS countries are planned to be situated. Chairman of the Committee for Economic Policy, Enterprise and Property of the Council of Federation of Russia Oganes Ohanian reminded that a few Armenian enterprises were conveyed to Russia to pay off the state debts and they are property of Russia now. He also noted that one of the largest defense enterprises of Armenia can be lifted with the assistance of Ural residents, the press release said. The Governor got interested in Ohanian's proposal and promised that the President of the Union of Defense Enterprises of Sverdlovsk region, Director General of Uralvagonzavod Nikolay Malykh will visit Armenia in the near future to discuss questions of development of commercial, economic and humanitarian cooperation and implementation of agreements, reached during the visit of the Sverdlovsk region delegation headed by E. Rossel to Armenia this March.