PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version: nian.htm
ARMENIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER VARTAN OSKANIAN VISITS
HIS HOLINESS IN BRUSSELS
Brussels – His Holiness Aram I received the Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Armenia, Vartan Oskanian on October 14 in Brussels, where both were
attending the 2nd Convention of the European Armenians. The Pontiff and the
minister discussed the action taken by the U.S. House committee and its
future stages with respect to the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
The Catholicos and Oskanian also discussed issues related to present-day
Armenian foreign policy, the current situation in the Middle East in
general, and the upcoming presidential elections in Lebanon.
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The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the history and
the mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
the Catholicosate, The Cilician
Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
Antelias, Lebanon.