ARAM I CATHOLICOS RECEIVES AMBASSADOR OF JAPAN
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 12 2007
ANTELIAS, MARCH 12, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Aram I Catholicos
received on March 9 Yoshihisa Kurota, the newly appointed Ambassador
of Japan to Lebanon. Local and international political developments,
especially efforts addressed to overcoming of the Near East crisis,
were discussed during the meeting. His Holiness Patriarch presented
the Ambassador his notions in the sense of re-establishing political
stability in Lebanon, emphasizing the necessity of a dialogue and
imperative need to stop the political debate. His Holiness also
attached importance to inner unification and necessity of strengthening
mutual confidence among communities. At the end of the conversation
His Holiness Patriarch touched upon his visit paid to Japan as well
as importance of dialogue with the Buddhist religion and, in general,
interchurch dialogue and cooperation.