ASHOT HOVAKIMIAN HANDS HIS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT OF SLOVAKIA
Noyan Tapan
Dec 14 2006
BRATISLAVA, DECEMBER 14, NOYAN TAPAN. Ashot Hovakimian handed
Ivan Gasparovic, the President of the Republic of Slovakia, his
credentials of the RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to
Slovakia on December 11. During the conversation taken place between
the President of Slovakia and the Ambassador of Armenia, sides,
estimating as positive the friendly relations established between the
two countries and peoples, at the same time attached importance to the
necessity of stimulating political, economic, cultural cooperation in
marzes (regions). The interlocutors touched upon the issue of future
development and deepening of the bilateral and many-sided cooperation
within the limits of possibilities given by the Armenia-EU Actions
Plan within the framework of the EU New Neighbourhooh Policy. As Noyan
Tapan was informed by the RA Foreign Ministry’s Press and Information
Department, the issue of Gasparovic’s possible visit of return to be
paid to Armenia during 2007 was touched upon during the meeting. Early
on the same day, Ambassador Hovakimian had meetings at the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia with State Secretary Olga Algayerova
to who he handed the copy of his credentials. He had meetings with a
number of other high-ranking officials of the Foreign Ministry as well.
Ambassador Hovakimian had meetings with compatriots living in Slovakia
as well, laid a wreath to the khachkar (cross stone)-monument to
memory of the Armenian Genocide victims, placed in 2005 in the region
of Petrzalka, Bratislava.