Thursday, January 24 2019 19:43

ArmInfo. Armenia and Poland will develop a new agenda for economic cooperation. This became known during the meeting of the Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan with the  Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Moravetsky in Davos.According to the  press service of the government, the parties came to an agreement to  charge the ministers of economy of Armenia and Poland to develop a  new agenda of economic cooperation. 

During the meeting, the heads of the Armenian and Polish governments  attached importance to development and expansion of multilateral  cooperation, emphasizing the need to deepen trade and economic ties.  At the same time, the sides stressed the need to give new impetus to  the work of the Armenian-Polish intergovernmental  commission.Pashinyan and Moravetsky discussed cooperation issues,  which is at different levels, in particular, within the framework of  the Comprehensive and Expanded Armenia-EU Cooperation (CEPA).  Pashinyan informed that complex reforms are being carried out in  Armenia in various fields, the effective implementation of which will  be supported by the programs envisaged by CEPA.

 In this vein, the Armenian prime minister stressed the importance of  ratification of the agreement by the EU states in a short  time.Mateusz Moravetsky welcomed the processes of democratic  development in Armenia, noting that Poland, for its part, will do  everything possible to ratify the agreement and will contribute to  the reform process. At the same time, the head of the Polish  government added that he was impressed by the recent events in  Armenia.

 At the end of the meeting, Moravetsky invited Pashinyan to Poland  for a more detailed discussion of the bilateral agenda of the  relationship.According to the RA Statistical Committee, the foreign  trade turnover between Armenia and Poland in January-November 2018  amounted to $ 47.4 million, which is 9.4% lower than a year ago. At  the same time, exports increased by 2.2% to $ 7.8 million, while  imports fell by 11.4% to $ 39.6 million.