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ACCORDING TO RA DEPUTY MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERRUPTION OF VISIT OF PRESIDENT OF IRAN HAS SERIOUS BASES
Noyan Tapan
Oct 23, 2007
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 23, NOYAN TAPAN. The speech of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was envisaged
in the RA National Assembly on October 23, was not made. According
to the information provided to journalists by Gegham Gharibjanian,
the RA Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, changes were made in the
program of the official visit at the request of the Iranian side
in the morning of the same day, all the scheduled meetings were
invalidated. and the President of Iran left for Iran at 12. It was
mentioned that the interruption of the visit of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
has serious bases and is connected with internal problems, which have
arisen in Iran. According to G. Gharibjanian, the Armenian side is
aware of those reasons journalists were not informed about. He also
mentioned that the official visit was not interrupted, just a change
in the program has been made.
The meeting of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tigran Torosian, the Speaker of
the RA National Assembly, Vardan Oskanian, the RA Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and Armen Movsisian, the RA Minister of Energy, took place in
the House of Receptions of the RA government in the morning of the same
day: at 9 o'clock. In response to the questions of journalists, the RA
Minister of Foreign Affairs made an official statement, according to
which the visit of the President of Iran to Tsiternakaberd was included
in the program as it is envisaged by the protocol of official visits.
Noyan Tapan
Oct 23, 2007
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 23, NOYAN TAPAN. The speech of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was envisaged
in the RA National Assembly on October 23, was not made. According
to the information provided to journalists by Gegham Gharibjanian,
the RA Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, changes were made in the
program of the official visit at the request of the Iranian side
in the morning of the same day, all the scheduled meetings were
invalidated. and the President of Iran left for Iran at 12. It was
mentioned that the interruption of the visit of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
has serious bases and is connected with internal problems, which have
arisen in Iran. According to G. Gharibjanian, the Armenian side is
aware of those reasons journalists were not informed about. He also
mentioned that the official visit was not interrupted, just a change
in the program has been made.
The meeting of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tigran Torosian, the Speaker of
the RA National Assembly, Vardan Oskanian, the RA Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and Armen Movsisian, the RA Minister of Energy, took place in
the House of Receptions of the RA government in the morning of the same
day: at 9 o'clock. In response to the questions of journalists, the RA
Minister of Foreign Affairs made an official statement, according to
which the visit of the President of Iran to Tsiternakaberd was included
in the program as it is envisaged by the protocol of official visits.