Head of PACE to arrive in Armenia

Caucaz.com, Georgia
Aug 18 2005

Yerevan, August 19 – Head of the Council of Europe Parliamentary
Assembly (PACE) Rene van der Linden will arrive in Armenia August
18-20 at the invitation of the Armenian National Assembly Speaker
Arthur Baghdasarian.

The NA press service said on August 18 meetings of the ambassadors from
the Council of Europe member countries and representatives of NGOs will
take place. Rene van der Linden will also visit Tsitsernakaberd and
put wreath on the memorial of the victims of the Armenian genocide. On
the same day he will visit Etchmiadzin and meet with His Holiness
Catholicos Karekin II.

On August 19 he will meet with the NA delegation to PACE and with
representatives of other political forces. During the visit the head of
the PACE will meet with the Armenian NA Speaker Arthur Baghdasarian,
Foreign Affairs Minister Vartan Oskanian, Justice Minister David
Harutyunian and Armenian President Robert Kocharian.