NEWLY APPOINTED RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA PRESENTS HIS
CREDENTIALS TO RA PRESIDENT

YEREVAN, May 19. /ARKA/. The newly appointed Russian Ambassador to
Armenia Nikolay Pavlov has presented his credentials to RA President
Robert Kocharyan. The RA presidential press service reports that
President Kocharyan pointed out steady development of Armenian-Russian
relations and expressed hope that Ambassador Pavlov will make his
considerable contribution to the consolidation of bilateral ties.

In his turn, Ambassador Pavlov stated that he has some economic
development plans and assured President Kocharyan that he will apply
all his experience and knowledge to the development of Armenian-Russian
cooperation in new directions.

RF President Vladimir Putin appointed Nikolay Pavlov RF Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia.

N. Pavlov was born on June 8, 1948. After leaving school he was sent
to Ulan Bator University as a member of the first group of students.

Pavlov graduated from the Institute of Asia and Africa, Moscow State
University (1973). He has worked at the RF Foreign Office since 1979.

Since May 1996 N. Pavlov had been Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary to Mongolia. Since 2002 he has been
Ambassador-at-Large. N. Pavlov is Representative of the RF Foreign
Minister to the Siberian federal region P.T. -0–