Meeting of the Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia with the Ambassador of Iran

According to the report of the international group of Fars news agency, “Arayik Harotunyan”, the chief of the general staff of the Armenian armed forces, met with “Mehdi Sobhani”, the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Armenia, on Tuesday. and talked.

According to the news agency “Armena Press” Harotonian and Sobhani discussed issues related to the development and continuous strengthening of relations between Armenia and Iran. In this meeting, a number of topics on the agenda of relations between Armenia and Iran were discussed.

Iran is one of the largest exporters of goods to Armenia. . Iran has a trade center in Armenia. It is said that Iran plans to increase the trade volume with Armenia to three billion dollars. – Economic, infrastructure development, healthcare, education, scientific, cultural and other aspects were discussed.

Both sides They emphasized the importance of fully using the available capacities in bilateral relations.

Recently, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Regarding the development of relations with Iran and other countries, he added: “First of all, we should try to improve relations in the region and with countries with which we have good relations, so that these relations improve.” This is related to Georgia and the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

“Gonel Sanusian”, the Minister of Infrastructure Affairs of Armenia, also recently said that Armenia and Iran plan to cooperate in the gas program. increase electricity.

According to this report, Armenia imports 365 million cubic meters of gas from Iran annually. In August 2023, Armenia and Iran signed a document to extend the natural gas contract for electricity until 2030. Based on this revised contract, Iran will increase natural gas exports to Armenia and Armenia will increase electricity exports to Iran.

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