Iranian Minister, Armenian President Confer on Mutual Cooperation

	TEHRAN (FNA) - Iranian Minister of Energy Majid Namjou and Armenia's President Serzh Sargsian explored avenues for the further bolstering of the two countries' mutual cooperation, specially in the energy sector. During the meeting on Saturday, the two sides stressed the importance of maintaining their bilateral cooperation, particularly in the field of energy. The Iranian minister also submitted the invitation letter from Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Armenian president to participate in the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran. The 16th NAM summit will be held on August 26 - 31 in the Iranian capital city of Tehran. Iran will assume the rotating presidency of the movement for three years during the Tehran summit. Namjou also held separate meeting with Armenia's Energy Minister Armen Movsisian, and voiced Tehran's preparedness to remove the obstacles in the way of the implementation of joint water and electricity projects. In recent years, Iran and its Northern neighbor Armenia have signed agreements on energy cooperation and agreed to cooperate in technology and research and to enhance ties in commerce and economy. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsian pledged in December 2011 to further expand "high-level relations" between their nations and, in particular, give new impetus to the implementation of joint energy projects that have fallen behind schedule.