Arka News Agency, Armenia
June 8 2007

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES RUSSIAN EMBASSY

YEREVAN, June 8. /ARKA/. Armenian President Robert Kocharyan visited
the RF Embassy in Armenia on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of
the Declaration of Sovereignty of the Russian Federation, which was
adopted in 1009.
In his speech, the RA President stressed the importance of further
development and consolidation of Armenian-Russian strategic
partnership.
The national holiday, Day of Russia, is marked on June 12. The day
was declared a national holiday by a decree issued by RF President
Boris Yeltsin in 1994. P.T. -0–