President Serzh Sargsyan receives Chairman of Gazprom Management Committee Alexey Miller

President Serzh Sargsyan today received Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Management Committee of OAO Gazprom.

The interlocutors discussed issues pertaining to the current level of Armenia-Russia cooperation in the energy sphere and its development prospects.

Stressing that Armenia and Russia continue to dynamically develop and strengthen their strategic partnership, the Armenian President laid special emphasis on its economic component where the gas and energy sphere plays a major role. Serzh Sargsyan praised the activities carried out by Gazprom through Gazprom Armenia, a leading company in Armenia’s economy, which directly affects the development of other economic branches. Serzh Sargsyan awarded Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Management Committee of OAO Gazprom, the Order of Friendship, taking into account the company’s activities and his significant contribution to the development and reinforcement of economic ties between the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation and to the strengthening of friendship between the Armenian and Russian peoples.

Alexey Miller expressed his thanks to the Armenian President for the honorable decoration and the recognition of the company’s activities, as well as for attending today the groundbreaking ceremony of a training complex to be built in Yerevan in the frame of the Gazprom for Children program. He assured that Gazprom is always ready to fulfill all its tasks in Armenia with great responsibility and within the deadlines, thereby also contributing to the further reinforcement of Armenian-Russian interstate relations.

At the meeting, Alexey Miller introduced the Armenian President to the activities that the company is currently carrying out in our country and the upcoming programs in which, according to him, social security programs hold an important place.