Armenian Foreign Ministry: Armenian President’s Visit To USA Is NotP

ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY: ARMENIAN PRESIDENT’S VISIT TO USA IS NOT PLANNED

Regnum, Russia
April 25 2006

“Armenian President Robert Kocharyan is not planned to visit
Washington. The assumption made on the ground of answer of Armenian
Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakosyan, I think, is a result
of either wrong translation or partial distortion of his words,”
spokesman for the foreign ministry Gamlet Gasparyan says.

“In an interview to Turkish Zaman newspaper Arman Kirakosyam was
talking not about visit of our president after the visit by Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev, but, pointing out our good friendly relations
with the USA, about a possibility of such visit on the whole,” Gamlet
Gasparyan is quoted as saying by press office of the Armenian foreign
ministry, reports a REGNUM correspondent.

It is worth mentioning that in an interview on April 24 to Turkish
Zaman newspaper, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakosyan
informed that the Armenian president would probably visit Washington in
the next few days. According to the Armenian deputy foreign minister,
the president would probably be the guest of the US administration
within the next few days, “after Aliyev’s visit.”