Friday, 7 November 2008
RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan met with Shermon Cissy, director of Sierra Leone-based Western Mines Company, a corporate entity specialized in diamond processing and jewelry. The company intends to develop cooperation with Armenian partners by making mutually beneficial investments into Armenia's jewelry sector.
Shermon Cissy said to have met the President of his country before coming to Armenia and stressed that the President had welcomed their initiative of establishing business ties with Armenia by assuring of Sierra Leone government's support. Mr. Shermon who owns several gold and diamond ore deposits in Sierra Leone noted that Armenia's tax policy and investment environment seem to be quite favorable for doing business in our country.
Tigran Sargsyan assured in turn that, appreciative of any support available to the private sector and desirous of building on the traditions existing in this area, his government will possibly back the strengthening of business contacts which are supposed to foster political interaction between the two countries.
