ESTONIAN PRESIDENT TO MAKE VISIT TO ARMENIA
Baltic News Service
October 26, 2004
TALLINN, Oct 26 — Estonian President Arnold Ruutel is scheduled to
pay an official visit to Armenia in mid-November.
During the Nov. 13-16 visit the Estonian head of state is going to
meet with his opposite number, Robert Kocharyan, at whose invitation
the visit will take place.
The president’s office invited members of parliament to accompany
the president but the standing Foreign Affairs Committee on Monday
decided that parliamentarians accompany the head of state only on
state visits but do not take part in official trips.
“A state visit is on a higher level, representing the state of Estonia,
and it’s not just the president’s visit,” the head of the parliament
panel, Marko Mihkelson, told BNS.
Estonia’s Ambassador to Armenia is Andres Unga, who resides in Athens.
The Armenian ambassador to Estonia resides in Warsaw.
The Armenian head of state made an official visit to this Baltic state
in June 2002, but neither Ruutel nor his predecessor Lennart Meri has
visited the Caucasus state. In April 2001 the then foreign minister,
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, and in December 1997 a parliamentary delegation
headed by Toomas Savi visited the Caucasus state.
Former Foreign Minister Siim Kallas was in Armenia in July 1996 at
the head of a delegation of the Council of Europe.