ARMENIAN PRESIDENT RECEIVES CONDOLENCES ON ARMENIAN PREMIER’S DEATH

Arka News Agency, Armenia
March 28 2007

YEREVAN, March 27. /ARKA/. RA President Robert Kocharyan continues
receiving telegrams of condolences on the death of RA Premier Andranik
Margaryan.

The press service of the RA Foreign Office reports that condolences
were received from Chairman of the European Commission Jose Manuel
Barozzo, Premier of Sweden Frederic Reinfeldt, Premier of Finland
Matti Vanhanen, Greek President Karolos Papoulias, and Greek Premier
Kostas Karamanlis.

The RA President has also received condolences from the state
representative of the Armenian community in Cyprus at the Chamber
of Representatives Vardges Makhtesyan, Head of the Palestinian
administration Mahmud Abbas and OSCE Secretary General Nikolay
Bordyuzha.

Condolences have also been received from Prime Ministers of Belarus
and Lithuania Sergey Sidorsky and Zhedeminas Kerkilas, Turkish Premier
Recep Erdogan and Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, Secertary
General of the EU Council Javier Solana, Greek Deputy Foreign Minister
Teodor Kassimis, representatives of the Armenian community in Spain
and foreign diplomats in Armenia.

The RA President issued a decree declaring March 28 a day of mourning
in Armenia.