FINNISH PRESIDENT ON VISIT IN ARMENIA

Newsroom Finland, Finland
Sept 26 2005

The Finnish President Tarja Halonen arrived Monday into Jerevan,
Armenia, from where she is to begin her three-day official visit to
South Caucasia.

At the Jerevan airport President Halonen and her spouse, Mr Arajarvi,
were met by a high-ranking delegation of officials led by the Armenian
justice minister Davit Harutiunian.

President Halonen and the Armenian President Robert Kotsharian are
to meet Tuesday in bilateral talks.

The talks are to feature exchange of views on the crisis epicentres of
South Caucasia. Mountain Karabah figures among them, a region Armenia
and Azerbaidzhan have fought over with guns. An armistice was signed
in 1994.

Wednesday, President Halonen, Mr Arajarvi and a Finnish business
delegation are to proceed to Georgia.