YEREVAN. – The energy sector has an important and special place on the bilateral agenda of Armenian-Russian allied partnership. 

President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan noted the aforementioned at his talk Wednesday with Sergei Kiriyenko, Head of the Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation of Russia.

Sargsyan stated that, for this very reason, a comprehensive discussion was held during his talk last month with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and with respect to the implementation of long-term joint projects also in the energy sector, the Press Office of the President of Armenia informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The interlocutors highly praised the level of respective collaboration.

Kiriyenko, for his part, commended the inaugural meeting—which was convened Wednesday in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan—of the Joint Coordinating Committee of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of Armenia, and the Rosatom corporation plus the several documents that were signed.

The meeting was devoted to extending the life of the second unit of Armenia’s nuclear power plant. In this respect, Sergei Kiriyenko also presented to Serzh Sargsyan the interim results of the Russian side’s overall inspection of the said second unit, and reflected on the future courses of action envisioned by the cooperation agenda.