Putin arrives in Armenia’s Echmiadzin
ITAR-TASS News Agency
March 25, 2005 Friday
ECHMIADZIN, March 25 — Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in
Echmiadzin on Friday. Echmiadzin is the administrative and spiritual
center of the Armenian Church that is located in Vagarshapat, 18
kilometers away from Yerevan.
Putin will meet with Armenian Catholicos Garegin II in Echmiadzin. He
will also visit the Catholicate and the Echmiadzin Cathedral.