ARMENIA, BRITAIN SIGN AGREEMENT ON CULTURAL CENTRES

Mediamax news agency
15 Jul 04

YEREVAN

The Armenian foreign minister and the British ambassador to Armenia,
Thorda Abbott-Watt, signed an agreement “On cultural centres” in
Yerevan today.

In line with the agreement, the British Council is declared to be the
official agency regulating cultural ties between Armenia and Great
Britain, the Foreign Ministry press service told Mediamax today. The
agreement also creates pre-conditions for founding a similar Armenian
cultural representative office in Britain.

The agreement gives Armenia and Britain the right to found cultural
centres in the two countries’ capital cities and other regions on the
basis of mutual consent.