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  • FM Starts Number of Meetings With Top Leadership of Lebanon

    RA FOREING MINISTER STARTS NUMBER OF MEETINGS WITH TOP LEADERSHIP OF
    LEBANON AND LOCAL ARMENIAN COMMUNITY

    BEIRUT JULY 1, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Vartan Oskanian, the RA
    Foreign Minister who is on a three-day visit in Beirut, started a
    number of meetings with the top leadership of Lebanon on June 30. A
    wide circle of issues put on the Armenian-Lebanese agenda is envisaged
    to be discussed during the meetings with General Emil Lahud, the
    President of the Republic of Lebanon; Nabih Berri, the Chairman of the
    Parliament; Najib Mikatti, the Prime Minister; and Mahmoud Hammoud,
    the Foreign Minister. The meetings started in the morning, with the
    conversation with Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammoud. The Foreign
    Ministers discussed a number of issues of bilateral and international
    importance. Bilateral satisafction was expressed for significant
    successes have been fixed in the sense of mutually beneficial
    cooperation in different international instances since the
    establishment of diplomatic relations. Meetings of the Foreign
    Ministers of two countries have taken place regularly. In the
    direction of activization of mutual contacts, regular consultations
    envisaged by a corresponding interdepartment report signed in 2000 are
    attached importance. Highly estimating the traditional close ties and
    friendship between the two peoples, the Ministers mentioned the
    importance the two countries attached to the mutual relations. Then,
    they presented their approaches concerning a number of international
    issues, particularly, concerning the UN reforms and developments of
    the Near East. Minister Oskanian briefly touched upon the settlement
    of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict as well as the Armenian-Turkish
    relations. As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA Foreign Ministry's
    Press and Information Department, at the meeting with Prime Minister
    Najip Mikatti, Minister Oskanian congratulated him for supporting
    greatly to keeping stability and peace of the country during the short
    terms of his officiating as well as for organizing the parliamentary
    elections at a high level in a short time. Though it is a transitional
    government, and a new one will be formed soon, hence, during the
    exchange of opinions with the Prime Minister, it was reitereted that a
    dynamic development of the Armenian-Lebanese ties will be secured by
    any Lebanese Government. In midday, the RA Foreign Minister visited
    the private residence of the family of Rafik Hariri, the former Prime
    Minister of Lebanon, and the Prime Minister's wife and son, Saadedi
    Hariri, the leader of the "Future" Movement, a MP, and, on his behalf
    and behalf of the authorities of Armenia, again presented condolence
    with Hariri's rough murder. The Minister mentioned that Armenia
    seriously condemned that inhuman terrorism action and other terrors
    followed it. Refering to personal warm relations with Rafik Hariri,
    V.Oskanian mentioned that martyr Prime Minister always was a great
    friend of the Armenian people and Armenia. His three visits to
    Armenia, the last of which took place in April, 2004, are the evidence
    of it. The Minister especially expressed satisfaction on the occasion
    of practical agreements of the Armenian-Lebanese Intergovernmental
    Economy Commission carried out under Hariri's patronage during his
    last visit. The participants of the meeting expressed readiness to
    continue the cooperation in the direction of development of the
    Armenian-Lebanese relations. Then, Vartan Oskanian, accompanied by
    Areg Hovhannisian, the RA Ambassador to Lebanon, left for the Martyrs'
    Square of Beirut and laid a wreath to Rafik Hariri's grave. Four
    Armenian Deputies of the parliamentary bloc headed by Saad Hariri were
    also present at the ceremony. On the same day, Minister Oskanian
    visited the Armenian Catholic Patriarchy as well, where he had a
    conversation with Catholicos-Patriarch Nerses Bedros Tarmuni and
    representatives of the Armenian Catholic Community about a number of
    issues the Lebanese Armenians are interested in, about the
    Armenian-Diasporan ties as well as the Armenian-Turkish relations.
    After the midday, V.Oskanian's visit to the Haykazian University of
    Beirut is envisaged, where he will meet with the lecturers' and
    professors' staff and in the evening, he will deliver a lecture before
    the Lebanese Armenians at the hall of the Armenian Gospel
    Church. Later, in honour of the Foreign Minister of Armenia, a
    receiption will be organized at the RA Embassy.
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