PRESIDENT OF FINLAND WELCOMES ARMENIA’S INVOLVEMENT IN NEW NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAM

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Sept 27 2005

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 27, NOYAN TAPAN. At the invitation of RA President
Robert Kocharian, Mrs Tarja Halonen, the President of the Republic
of Finland and her husband Pentti Arajarvi arrived in Armenia on an
official visit on September 26

Robert Kocharian’s and Tarja Halonen’s private conversation took
place after the official ceremony of meeting the high-ranking guest
at the RA President’s residense on September 27. The heads of the
two countries discussed issues concerning the bilateral relations,
the European Union-Armenia cooperation, regional problems as well as
exchanged opinions concerning issues of mutual interest.

As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA President’s Press Office, Mrs.

Halonen welcame Armenia’s involvement in the New Neighborhood Program
of the European Union and mentioned that in its foreign policy,
Finland gives a greater role to developing of relations with the
South Caucasian coutries, particularly for Finland will undertake
the chairmanship of the European Union the next year.

Then negotiations with the participation of Robert Kocharian and
Tarja Halonen took place in a enlarged staff. Primary directions
of the economic cooperation and possibilities of their activization
were discussed.