YEREVAN, MARCH 18, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s Ambassador to Russia Vardan Toghanyan on March 17 had a meeting with the members of the “Armenian business club” of Russia, reports “Armenpress”.

The meeting was attended by nearly more than two dozen owners of Russian enterprises, heads of financial companies and individual investors.

The newly appointed Armenian Ambassador presented his stances on strengthening the Armenian-Russian bilateral trade-economic ties, attached importance to filling the existing gap in the bilateral commercial contacts and urged the businessmen to find new formats and options for deepening the bilateral trade turnover.

The Ambassador spoke about the existing opportunities in all spheres of Armenia’s economy, starting from the IT sector to agriculture, as well as the investment programs developed by the Government.

The Russian-Armenian businessmen in their turn presented their visions over the development of trade-economic ties with Armenia and were interested in the Armenian President’s recent visit results to Russia and the upcoming parliamentary election.

Several entrepreneurs stated that smooth holding of the upcoming election and peaceful transfer to parliamentary system will greatly contribute to the further involvement of the Russian capital in Armenia’s economy by this leaving a positive impact on Armenia’s international rating.