YEREVAN, APRIL 28, ARMENPRESSA. An agreement on discount for the gas tariff for Armenia has been reached at the course of the meeting with the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan with the Chairman of the Management Committee of OAO Gazprom Alexey Miller. As reports “Armenpress”, the Chairman of the Management Committee of OAO Gazprom Alexey Miller stated this in an interview to Russia 24 TV channel.

Among other things, the Chairman of the Management Committee of OAO Gazprom Alexey Miller underscored: “Conditioned with Armenia’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union, the gas tariff for Armenia will be reduced and total USD 165 for 1000 square meters. This tariff will allow making investments in the activities aimed at the modernization of the gas supply system.”

Previously it was reported that President Serzh Sargsyan received Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Management Committee of OAO Gazprom, on April 16.

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.