Date for Putin’s visit to Yerevan to be set soon
By Kseniya Kaminskaya, Tigran Liloyan

ITAR-TASS News Agency
February 17, 2005 Thursday

YEREVAN, February 17 — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said
in Yerevan late on Thursday that Russia would be ready to set a
specific date for President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Yerevan in
the near future. The minister explained that the time of the trip
“depended on the president’s schedule in the foreseeable weeks.”

Putin’s visit to Armenia was one of the topics of Lavrov’s talks with
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan.

The presidential press service reports that the Russian Foreign
Minister conveyed Putin’s message to Robert Kocharyan and told him
that the Russian president was looking forward to his trip to Yerevan
that will open the Year of Russian Culture in Armenia.