LEADERS OF 12 ARAB TRIBES MEET WITH RA DEFENCE MINISTER
YEREVAN, APRIL 1, NOYAN TAPAN. Leaders of 12 Arab tribes of North
Syria, at the meeting with Serge Sargsian, the Secretary of the
National Security Council attached to the RA President, the Defence
Minister, expressed their readiness from now and then also to assist
the fastening of the Armenian-Syrian traditional freindship. At the
March 31 meeting, the RA Defence Minister thanked the Arab tribal
leaders for visiting Armenia and attached special importance to the
appreciable contribution that they have in fastening frindship of
Armenian and Syrian Arab peoples. The tribal leaders expressed warm
and high estimation about the ancient culture of the Armenian people,
their rich traditions, emphasizing that today Armenians in Syria have
great contribution to state and public construction.