KOCHARIAN NOT TO VISIT WASHINGTON

Arka News Agency, Armenia
April 25 2006

Yerevan, April 25. /ARKA/. RA President Robert Kocharyan is not
expected to pay a visit to Washington, Hamlet Gasparyan, Press
Secretary of the RA Foreign Office, told ARKA, commenting on a report
by the Turkish newspaper “Zaman”, which referred to RA Deputy Foreign
Minister Arman Kirakosyan.

“The conclusion made from Arman Kirakosyan’s statement is the result
of mistranslation,” he said.

During his interview with the “Zaman” correspondent, Robert Kocharyan
was not speaking of a planned visit to Washington after his Azerbaijani
counterpart Ilkham Aliyev’s visit to the USA, but of a possibility
of such a visit in the context of very good relations with the USA,
Kirakosyan said.