2024-05-29 02:49:23
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan delivered a speech on the twelfth session of the intergovernmental fee on financial cooperation between the Republic of Armenia and Georgia. The Prime Minister referred to the cooperation between the 2 nations in numerous fields.
In his speech, Nikol Pashinyan famous:
“Expensive Prime Minister Garibashvili,
Expensive Colleagues,
Women and gents,
Inside the framework of the twelfth session of the intergovernmental fee for financial cooperation between the Republic of Armenia and Georgia, I as soon as once more welcome Prime Minister Garibashvili and the delegation headed by him.
There isn’t a doubt that the friendship of the Armenian and Georgian peoples based mostly on frequent values, cultural and historic commonalities is the strong foundation of our lively interplay and a dependable assure for the long run, and the additional enlargement and deepening of relations with Georgia is without doubt one of the vital priorities of Armenia’s overseas coverage.
2022 may be referred to as the yr of overcoming the difficulties and penalties of the earlier interval. I want to state with satisfaction that because of the implementation of constant efforts, we had been in a position to register financial development and our economies have returned to regular ranges in lots of areas.
I want to be aware with satisfaction that in the present day our intergovernmental relations are at a qualitatively new stage and are recording dynamic growth in numerous fields. The vivid proof of my phrases are the periodic official and unofficial conferences of the leaders of Armenia and Georgia, throughout which we have now the chance to handle your entire agenda of bilateral relations. This exercise can also be maintained in lots of different areas, the place lively bilateral contacts happen at numerous ranges.
Nevertheless, there’s a clear mutual understanding in increasing and deepening our financial relations to determine the unrealized potential and extra successfully use the alternatives arising from it. In that regard, a big place within the agenda of in the present day’s session of the intergovernmental fee is reserved for selling mutual investments, strengthening enterprise ties, creating extra favorable circumstances for small and medium-sized companies, interplay between the sectoral departments of the 2 nations, and points associated to the event of joint financial packages.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the economies of just about all nations suffered important unfavourable results, and our nations weren’t spared, on account of which the symptoms of mutual commerce decreased considerably in 2020 and 2021 in comparison with 2019. Nevertheless, within the months of January-November 2022, the quantity of commerce turnover, in keeping with RA statistics, elevated nearly twice in comparison with 2021, amounting to 759 million US {dollars}. Right here, the statistics of Georgia publish the next determine of 1 billion, and I’m certain that you just counted extra appropriately than we did. It is rather vital that we examine the numbers to not 2020, 2021, however to 2019, the place the figures had been very excessive and file. On this regard, in 2019 in January-November, the quantity of commerce turnover with Georgia was 481.7 million USD, and in 2022, in comparison with the identical interval of 2019, the rise was 57.6%. I feel this indicator is, for apparent causes, much more vital, as a result of for us and for you, 2019 was a really profitable yr, maybe probably the most profitable of the earlier years.
If we examine 2022 The indications of 11 months of 2019 with annual indicators (554.7 million), then even on this case in 2022 In 2019, the commerce turnover with Georgia in 11 months elevated by 36.9%. In different phrases, 11 months have already exceeded your entire quantity of 2019, on which I wish to congratulate all of us. Which means that what we converse, we agree, the enterprise world additionally perceives that message, we additionally create circumstances for our relationships to develop dynamically.
I’m certain that the optimistic dynamics of overseas commerce indicators shall be maintained within the following years, due to the expansion of the economies of our nations and the event of cooperation.
I want to be aware with satisfaction the file of excessive indicators of financial development in our nations. Each Armenia and Georgia recorded double-digit financial development in 2022. I feel additionally our interplay and good relationship performed an important function in that. The expansion of gross home product in Armenia in January-September 2022 was 12.6%.
The precedence given to the transport sector inside the framework of bilateral cooperation and the cooperation in plenty of worldwide transport constructions allow us to take lifelike steps within the initiatives offering the nodal connection of each North-South and East-West routes. These are additionally problems with the strategic dimension of our discussions, on which we should constantly work.
Common passenger transportation between Armenia and Georgia is carried out each by land and by air. As for cargo transportation, it’s essential to make extra efforts and perform joint steady work to make sure their simpler motion, together with by management utilizing fashionable technological options. On this context, I want to emphasize the significance of the operation of the brand new bridge named “Berekamutyun” on the Bagratashen-Sadakhlo checkpoint of the Armenian-Georgian interstate border in August final yr.
Armenia additionally attaches nice significance to railway transport cooperation and the enlargement of multimodal transport, together with the group of sea transport.
For Armenia, Georgia, as a transit nation, additionally has a fantastic function when it comes to dependable and protected provide of vitality sources, communication and telecommunications. In 2022, 365 million kWh of electrical energy was exported from the Republic of Armenia to Georgia, which is greater than the exports from Armenia within the earlier 10 years mixed. We hope that we can preserve the indicated dynamics on this space.
Taking into consideration the modernity of knowledge applied sciences and their day-by-day growing function in nearly all spheres of life, the event of cooperation between Armenia and Georgia within the fields of digitalization, telecommunications, excessive applied sciences, in addition to cyber safety turns into crucial.
Lively contacts with Georgia proceed within the subject of schooling and science. I’m completely happy to state that since final yr, Georgian language is taught in three colleges in Armenia, and that quantity will certainly enhance. As a way to enhance that quantity, we count on the assist of our Georgian companions to boost the extent of Georgian language instructing in Armenian colleges, and we count on assist within the preparation and coaching of Georgian language specialists so as to have the ability to perform in a correct quantity, as a result of the principle impediment we have now in the present day is the shortage of the variety of specialists.
Inside the framework of interdepartmental cooperation, the certification program for lecturers of public colleges instructing Armenian was developed in Georgia, which was launched in 2022. It’s deliberate to increase this system, which can even embody the group of instructor coaching programs.
I want to be aware with satisfaction that efficient work is underway to create a middle of Georgian research at Yerevan State College and to develop a chair of Armenian research at Ivane Javakhishvili State College in Tbilisi.
Immediately, the Armenian-Georgian cooperation within the subject of tradition is coming into a qualitatively new section, by which the standing of merely perceiving one another’s cultures is altering to the extent of forming a unified cultural subject based mostly on the precept of cooperation, and collectively positioning ourselves within the worldwide cultural-tourist market. I additionally think about it obligatory to emphasise organizing excursions of Georgian and Armenian cultural teams, mutual visits of cultural figures, organizing exhibitions and different occasions. I imply that Georgian cultural figures and collectives ought to carry out in Armenia and Armenian collectives and artists ought to carry out in Georgia as nicely. I hope that on account of our discussions, that course of can even be activated.
One of many vital instructions of our cultural cooperation is the safety of historic and cultural monuments, and in that context we have to activate the cooperation between establishments accountable for cultural heritage points.
Talking about cultural interplay, I want to thank our Georgian companions for the renovation of the State Armenian Drama Theater named after Petros Adamyan in Tbilisi, in addition to for supporting the actions of the theater troupe.
The tourism sector additionally has important growth potential in our two nations. In 2022, the variety of vacationers visiting Armenia was greater than 1.6 million, growing by about 90% in comparison with the identical interval final yr. I’m certain that mutual vacationer visits between our two nations even have the potential to develop. I want to point out that in keeping with preliminary information, the variety of guests from Georgia to Armenia in 2022 was about 190 thousand and this quantity clearly has the potential to extend.
I imagine that there’s nonetheless unrealized potential in creating regional tourism packages between our nations, and the implementation of joint work on this route will convey cooperation within the subject of tourism to a brand new degree. By the best way, I wish to say that in my first go to to Georgia, after we had been assembly with representatives of the Georgian enterprise neighborhood, the primary query they raised was that the roads from Tbilisi to Yerevan are in a really unhealthy situation, and I advised them , that we are going to undoubtedly clear up that situation. Now I’m completely happy to file that the highways coming from Tbilisi to Yerevan are in wonderful situation. So, I hope that our tourism corporations, in keeping with our settlement, will activate tourism volumes, instructions and cooperation. Particularly, I feel that we’re signing an vital doc on this regard, the Memorandum of Understanding between the Republic of Armenia and Georgia on reciprocal visa-free journey for residents of each nations, which implies that our residents and we will already mutually work together with one another. to go to with out a passport, with ID playing cards, which can also be crucial and expresses our cooperation.
In conclusion, I want to thanks for this cooperation. What is that this itemizing about? By and enormous, this enumeration is about the truth that our bilateral relations will not be one-tiered, nor two-tiered, nor three-tiered. Our relationships are multi-layered, and I’m certain that this high quality of our high-level political relations will enable these layers to extend an increasing number of for the nice of the Republic of Armenia, for the nice of Georgia, for the nice of the area and the age-old friendship of our two nations and peoples.
Congratulations once more and good luck.”