ARMENIAN FM, ISRAELI AMBASSADOR DISCUSS POSSIBILITIES OF BILATERAL COOPERATION

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
March 21 2007

YEREVAN, March 21. /ARKA/. Israel’s Ambassador Ehud Gol (residence in
Jerusalem) handed copies of credentials to Armenia’s Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanian.

The RA Foreign Minister’s press service reported that the sides agreed
on the opinion that practical steps are necessary for activating
bilateral cooperation. Mutual visits, consultations between the
countries’ Foreign Ministries as well as the development of bilateral
contractual basis will contribute to that.

The sides discussed regional issues as well as the prospects of
settlement of Palestinian-Israeli and Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts.

Ehud Gol was born in 1946 in Jerusalem. He was the Consul on the
issues of press and information in Israel’s General Consulate in
Chicago, then – consul in New York. In 1986-88 he held the office
of the Speaker and Head of Media Department in the Foreign Ministry,
Councilor of Israel’s President.

In 1988-1991 he was Consul General in Rio-de-Janeiro. In 1991-1992
he was Israeli Foreign Minister’s Councilor on media issues.

In 1995-1999 Gol was Israel’s Ambassador to Spain and Andorra. In
1999-2001 he held the office of Foreign Ministry’s Deputy General
Director on the issues of Western Europe, and in 2001-2006 Israel’s
Ambassador to Italy. In 2007 he was appointed Ambassador to Armenia,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.