BLESSED BE PUTIN’S VISIT TO ECHMIADZIN
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25-03-2005
Today Garegin II, the Catholicos of all Armenians, received in
Echmiadzin the RF President Vladimir Putin, together with the Russian
Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Armenia Anatoly Dryukov
and Armenian Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Russia
Armen Smbatyan.
The Catholicos expressed his satisfaction with the fact that in the
process of the improvement of the Russian social life the President
gives importance to the spiritual values.
Vladimir Putin expressed his joy for the meeting, as well as for the
possibility to discuss the cooperation of the two countries in the
spiritual field.
At the end of the meeting the Catholicos and the {resident visited
the Museum, and then … the Holy Cathedral, where the Catholicos
prayed to God for the stability of the friendship of the Armenian and
Russian nations and the progress and well-being of the two countries.