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At the joint sittings of the NA Standing Committees on Regional and Eurasian Integration and on the Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs the RA Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Ghevondyan presented the allocations and to be provided to the sphere and the result indicators to be expected.

According to the Deputy Minister, the format of the bilateral and multi-lateral cooperation exists in the Eurasian region. In 2022, the 30^th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Armenia and Russia turns, as well as the 25^th anniversary of the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Aid.

Despite the pandemic, in 2021 the Armenian-Russian allied relations were activated on the bilateral and multilateral platforms: 4 meetings of the RA Prime Minister and the RF President, 5 meetings of the Foreign Ministers, more than dozens of telephone talks.

Armen Ghevondyan noted that with the results of the statements of the Heads of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan signed on 9 November 2020 and 11 January 2021 the de-blockading process of the economic and transport communication was launched in the South Caucasus region.

In December of this year, the next 20^th meeting of the Inter-Governmental Commission for Economic Cooperation between Armenia and Russia it planned to hold in Yerevan. It was noted that the RF showed great support to our country in the fight against pandemic.

In the near future the next meeting of the Eurasian Inter-Governmental Council will be convened in Yerevan.

In activating the economic ties the MP Khachatur Sukiasyan highlighted the effective work of the embassies, the commercial attaches and tried to clarify what tools were used in this direction. To Armen Ghevondyan’s conviction, to enliven the economic ties we may use new opportunities, if there will be the diversification channels, which can connect our countries and facilitate the contacts of the entities. In this context the Chair of the Standing Committee on the Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs Gevorg Papoyan has recorded that there is the notion economic diplomacy in the five-year plan of the Government activity, and in case of the concrete programmes allocations will be designed during the distribution of the budgetary means.