BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT INTENDS TO VISIT ARMENIA IN 2008
Noyan Tapan
Jun 07 2007
SAP PAULO, JUNE 7, NOYAN TAPAN. The deputy foreign minister of the
RA Arman Kirakosian visited Brazil on June 2-4, concluding his Latin
American regional working visit.
According to the RA MFA Press and Information Department, on June 4
the deputy foreign minister and the RA consul general Valery Mkrtumian
arrived in the capital city of Brasilia, where the delegation was
received by the president of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies Arlindo
Chinaglia. A wide range of issues was discussed at the meeting,
including the issue of re-creation of deputy friendship groups at
the two parliaments as an additional stimulus for establishing closer
bilateral relations.
During the talk, the sides expressed their satisfaction at the
development of bilateral trade and economic relations and attached
importance to mutual visits of delegations composed of high-ranking
officials. A. Kirakosian addressed Armenian foreign policy problems,
regional issues and the process of international recognition of the
Armenian Genocide. On behalf of the Armenian government he expressed
satisfaction at the fact that the province of Sao Paulo has passed
a resolution recognizing and condemning the Armenian Genocide.
Then Arman Kirakosian met with the acting foreign minister of
Brazil, deputy foreign minister for international trade promotion and
cooperation issues Ruy Nunes Pinto Nogueira. Mr. Kirakosian briefly
presented the results of his visits to Argentina and Uruguay. During
the meeting, the sides discussed the further development of bilateral
relations, as well as a number of issues of mutual interest. They
attached special importance to establishing the Armenian embassy
in Barzil.
At the request of R. Nogueira, the Armenian deputy foreign minister
spoke about the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement process, Armenia’s
relations with neighboring countries, and the main directions of the
country’s foreign policy.
Underlining the importance of the Armenian president’s official
visit to Brazil in 2002, A. Kirakosian expressed the Armenian side’s
willingness to organize an official visit of the Brazilian president
Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva to Armenia. R. Nogueira said that the
Brazilian president intends to visit Armenia in 2008.
While in Sao Paulo, A. Kirakosian laid a wreath at the monument
to victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, went to Surb Gevorg
Armenian Apostolic Church and met with heads of Sao Paulo’s Armenian
structures in the primacy. On the same day an event took place, at
which A. Kirakosian made a speech and answered a number of questions.