A serious progress was reached within the framework of Iranian-Armenian economic cooperation, particularly just-begun construction of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline and commissioning of the second high-power transmission line, the minister's press secretary Seiran Shakhsuvaryan said.
The ambassador noted that the latest meetings at the official level have generated new ideas for economic cooperation, such as the building of a railway between Iran and Armenia, as well as the supply of Iranian oil products (it is crucial for Armenia in view of its no simple relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey).
The Iranian ambassador has promised assistance in arranging Farsi classes at Armenia's Vazgen Sarkisyan Military Institute.
The Armenian defence minister noted that, if this project would be implemented, the Military Institute would be Armenia's second advanced-Farsi centre after the Yerevan State University.
As regards programmes intended under the Armenia-NATO partnership, Sarkisyan reiterated that membership in the North Atlantic Alliance is not on the foreign policy agenda of Armenia.
The sides also discussed matters of regional security, peaceful settlement of the Nagorny-Karabakh conflict.
