Armenian exporters of agricultural products can significantly increase exports to Russia, but they need to provide products of competitive quality and price, if they seek to build their business in the Russian market for long. The statement came from the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan in an interview with Noyan Tapan.
"It is hard to say how much investments our agricultural sector needs for that, and how many new players will hurry to the Russian market from other countries, and how long all this will continue. We should not forget that sanctions will be lifted one day, but they give time to our producers to make their products familiar and local for the Russian market to gain a niche there," Kocharyan said. At the same time, the second president of Armenia thinks it would be wrong saying that Armenia's economy will gain from the sanctions against Russia.
"I remember that one of our statesmen [ex-prime minister Tigran Sargsyan is meant] with an academic face said in the summer of 2008 that Armenia's economy will gain from the global crisis. In fact, we became champions by economic decline and still fail to restore the pre-crisis level of economy," he said.