INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT THANKS ARMENIAN DOCTORS FOR
POST-TSUNAMI AID

YEREVAN, MARCH 11. ARMINFO. The Indonesian government has officially
thanked the four Armenian doctors who have helped the victims of the
Dec 26 devastating tsunami, says Armenia’s deputy health care minister
Hayk Darbinyan.

The doctors stayed in Aceh province from Feb 19 to Mar 5. Their chief
Hrant Ashjyan says that there was a dire shortage of doctors in the
province and all the local hospitals were full. Prevailing where
infectious and epidemic diseases.

Armenia’s deputy foreign minister Armen Bayburdyan says that being
the biggest Muslim country of the world and the leader of the Non
Aligned Movement Countries supported Armenia during the NAM summit in
Jakarta in 1993 by excluding from the agenda the Karabakh issue. Then
Azerbaijan was trying to present the problem as a religious conflict.
Since then Armenia and Indonesia have been good friends.

To remind, the Armenian government has helped Sri Lanka too having
sent there medicines and blankets worth $54,000.