SERGEI LAVROV: ARMENIAN BRANDY IS BETTER THAN FRENCH COGNAC

Noyan Tapan
Apr 04 2007

YEREVAN, APRIL 4, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenian brandy is better than French
cognac.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who went to the Yerevan
Brandy Company (YBC) on April 4 during his 2-day visit to Armenia,
expressed this opinion.

Accompanied by YBC Executive Director Erve Karoff, S. Lavrov and
members of the Russian delegation familiarized themselves with the
peculiarities of production of Armenian brandy. The Russian foreign
minister made a record in the honorary guests’ journal, as well as
left his signature on the "peace barrel", which was filled with cognac
spirit after establishment of a cease-fire on the Armenian-Azerbaijani
contact-line in 1994 and which will be opened on the occasion of the
final solution of the Nagorno Karabakh problem. The guests tasted the
25-year-old exclisive "Erebuni" barndy, while S. Lavrov was presented
with a 40-year-old "Sparapet" brandy.

The delegation was accompanied by the ambassadors of the two countries
Armen Smbatian and Nikolay Pavlov, and the RA Deputy Foreign Minister
Gegham Gharibjanian. At the end of the visit, a dinner was given in
honor of the guests, at which the Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan
Oskanian was also present.