Prime Ministers of Georgia and Armenia agreed to develop joint  initiatives in field of transport, energy, high technologies

ArmInfo. Armenia and Georgia agreed to develop joint initiatives in the field of  transport, energy, and high technologies. This was emphsized at the  meeting of Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili with  Prime  Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.

According to the press service of the government, the parties  discussed the directions of further development of economic ties. In  particular, they emphasized the mutual readiness to increase the  volume of trade. In this context, the interlocutors attached  importance to the work of the Armenian-Georgian intergovernmental  commission on economic cooperation, the next meeting of which will be  held at the end of the year in Georgia.

The Prime Minister of Armenia thanked the Georgian side; the Prime  Minister of Georgia for the efforts to return 15 Armenian prisoners  of war from Azerbaijan, stressing that this is a significant  contribution to maintaining peace and stability in the region. In  this context, Nikol Pashinyan attached importance to Georgia's  balanced position on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,  which should be based on the principles proposed by the OSCE Minsk  Group co-chairs. 

The Prime Minister touched upon Azerbaijan's destructive policy and  anti-Armenian rhetoric, which poses a threat to regional stability  and security.  The sides also exchanged views on the internal  political situation in the two countries. 

Pashinyan noted that for the second time in the history of Armenia,  the elections by international observers were recognized as  completely transparent, free and fair, and as a result, the internal  political crisis in Armenia was overcome. He indicated that the  priorities of the Armenian government's program are to strengthen the  rule of law, including the fight against corruption, peace and  development for the Armenian people, as well as for the entire  region.  

To not, according to the RA Statistical Committee, the foreign trade  turnover between Armenia and Georgia in January-July 2021 increased  by 31.4%, amounting to $ 96.1 million, while exports increased by  12.2% to $ 36.4 million, imports by 46.6 % to $ 59.7 million