DAVOS, JANUARY 30, NOYAN TAPAN. RA President Serzh Sargsyan met with RF Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the evening of January 29. The sides summed up the positive tendencies recorded in the economic cooperation sphere in 2008 expressing confidence that annual commodity circulation between the two countries, the index already exceeding 1bn dollars creates good bases for further success. During the meeting the interlocutors touched upon a wide range of issues on the bilateral relations agenda. The same day S. Sargsyan met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The sides attached importance to the breakthrough in the process of normalizing the Armenian-Turkish relations that took place after the 2008 September 6 meeting between the Armenian and Turkish Presidents, the continuation of which were further meetings between the two countries' Foreign Ministers. S. Sargsyan and Tayyip Erdogan positively estimated the results of their first meeting and instructed the two countries' Foreign Ministers to exert additional efforts for normalizing the relations. As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA President's Press Office, S. Sargsyan also had a meeting with President of Switzerland Hans-Rudolf Merz. The interlocutors stressed the current high level of both bilateral relations and relations within the framework of international organizations. S. Sargsyan thanked for assistance provided to Armenia by the government of Switzerland, as well as emphasized Switzerland's permanent balanced position during discussion of issues regarding Armenia at international organizations. During the meeting they also touched upon overcoming the consequences of the world financial-economic crisis and settlement of the current regional problems.

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