Armenian president awards British MP

Arminfo
17 Sep 05

YEREVAN

Armenian President Robert Kocharyan has decorated the deputy speaker
of the British House of Lords, Baroness Caroline Cox, with the Mkhitar
Gosh Medal for her significant contribution to the strengthening and
development of Armenian-British relations and for many years of
humanitarian, fruitful and courageous work. Kocharyan presented Cox
with Armenia’s state award today.

After the awarding ceremony, President Kocharyan highly valued Cox’s
consistent and purposeful work, the Armenian president’s press service
has told Arminfo.

Cox said it was her 60th visit to Nagornyy Karabakh as part of the
pilgrimage mission to Artsakh [Karabakh]. She shared her impressions
of Artsakh with Kocharyan. Cox said that on every visit to Nagornyy
Karabakh, she sees obvious progress both in Armenia and Artsakh. At
the request of the guest, Kocharyan updated her on the current
situation in the Karabakh settlement process in the light of his
recent meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Kazan.