OSKANYAN: COMPREHENSIVE AND ACTIVE DIALOGUE ESTABLISHED BETWEEN ARMENIA, SWITZERLAND

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
June 13 2006

YEREVAN, June 13. /ARKA/. Comprehensive and active dialogue is
established between Armenia and Switzerland, Armenian Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanyan said as met with his Swiss counterpart Micheline
Calmy-Rey on Monday in Yerevan.

Armenian Foreign Ministry press service reports that Oskanyan finds it
important to make economic and cultural ties between the two countries
closer and expressed hope that Armenian businessmen participation in
Swiss Invest Forum in Zurich will produce significant effect.

Oskanyan expressed appreciation of Switzerland’s contribution to
reformation process in Armenia. As an example of this contribution, the
minister singled out the involvement of Swiss Agency for Development
and Cooperation in the program focused on developing Armenian resort
of Tsakhkadzor.

He also expressed hope that Swiss side will display its interest in
Armenian rural areas development.

Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey arrived in Yerevan on
Sunday for a three-day visit.

She is set to meet Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and Prime
Minister Andaranik Margaryan as well as to tour Mission Armenia
organization and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Office
in Yerevan and to visit Armenian Genocide Memorial to pay floral
tribute to those killed by Ottoman Turks in 1915.