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  • Armenian Leader Discusses Ties, Karabakh, Turkey In UK

    ARMENIAN LEADER DISCUSSES TIES, KARABAKH, TURKEY IN UK

    Public Television of Armenia
    Feb 11 2010

    [Presenter-read report over video of meetings] Queen Elizabeth II has
    received [Armenian President] Serzh Sargsyan at Buckingham Palace
    within the framework of his working visit to the United Kingdom
    of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Prospects for developing
    Armenian-British bilateral ties, the process of Armenia's European
    integration, and normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations were
    discussed.

    At his London residence, the [Armenian] president received UK
    Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David
    Miliband. Sargsyan said that our country attaches great importance to a
    further expansion of political dialogue and development of economic and
    trade relations with the United Kingdom and is interested in expanding
    cooperation in different areas. Regional security, normalization
    of Armenian-Turkish relations and the process of Karabakh peace
    talks were discussed. Miliband welcomed the efforts of the Armenian
    president aimed at normalizing relations with Turkey and noted that
    the United Kingdom backs this process and is interested in the cause
    of strengthening of peace in our region.

    The president met Prince Charles at Windsor Palace. Sargsyan
    attended a reception on the occasion of the launch of the Yerevan -
    Im Ser [Yerevan - My Love] project initiated by Prince Charles and a
    former Armenian prime minister, Armen Sargsyan, and the concert that
    followed it.

    [Passage omitted: more on the concert and the Yerevan - Im Ser charity
    project that will support restoration of historical buildings in
    Yerevan; representatives of Armenian diaspora attended the reception]

    Sargsyan also held a separate meeting in London with Armenian
    businessmen and well-known Armenian public figures who had arrived
    from around the world. The president said their continuous work in
    the sphere of Armenia's and Artsakh's [Karabakh's] economic progress,
    strengthening of ties with motherland and in the cause of preservation
    of Armenian identity within Armenian communities in the diaspora was
    invaluable. Sargsyan expressed confidence that it would be possible
    to overcome problems by joining forces and to decisively advance on
    the path of implementation of national wishes.
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