Armenia thanks Equatorial Guinea for pardoning jailed pilots

Mediamax news agency
6 Jun 05

YEREVAN

The Armenian Foreign Ministry has thanked the authorities of
Equatorial Guinea and personally President Teodoro Obiang Nguema for
“showing humanity and understanding”.

The Armenian Foreign Ministry said this today in a statement on the
decision of Equatorial Guinea’s president to pardon the six Armenian
pilots who had been imprisoned in Malabo since the beginning of 2004,
Mediamax news agency reports.

The Foreign Ministry statement says that diplomat Gevorg Pogosyan flew
to Malabo today to arrange the Armenian pilots’ return home.