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    ARMENIAN DIPLOMATS DO NOT TRADE IN CARS

    Lragir
    Jan 24 2008
    Armenia

    The response of the head of the press and information department of
    the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Karapetyan to Radio Liberty

    Mr. Karapetyan, the German DPA agency informs that the diplomats
    representing Armenia to Buenos Aires have appeared among diplomats of
    over 30 other countries, who are suspected by the foreign ministry
    of Argentina of illegal import of cars. Please confirm or refute
    this information.

    The part of the information published in the Clarin , an Argentinian
    newspaper, and spread by the German agency DPA concerning the Armenian
    embassy to Argentina and its staff is not true.

    In Argentina no Armenian diplomat has ever bought a personal car and
    has never been involved in any profit deal.

    The Armenian embassy to Argentina owns a Honda Accord car which was
    donated to the embassy in 2006 by the national benefactor Eduardo
    Seferyan, and one For Focus which was bought in 2007. The Armenian
    embassy does not own any other car.

    It should be noted that the authoritative Argentinean newspaper La
    Nacion published a story about the same incident but did not mention
    the Armenian embassy.

    The foreign minister of Argentina Jorge Taiana has initiated an
    investigation in illegal import of cars. Several senior officials
    of the foreign ministry and customs service of Argentina have been
    dismissed.

    The Armenian embassy urges in a letter to the editor of the Clarin
    to refute the wrong information.
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