DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ENDS HIS VISIT TO JAPAN

Panorama.am
16:08 06/11/2007

Armenian deputy foreign minister, Armen Baiburdyan, met with deputy
foreign minister of Japan, Koike Masakatsu, in the course of his
visit to Tokyo.

Armenian foreign ministry press and information department informs
that the deputy ministers discussed Armenian-Japanese political,
economic and cultural bilateral cooperation. According to the source,
Baiburdyan met with Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
deputy president, Ueda Yoghihiza. He also met with Sumio Yedamura,
leader of Armenia-Japan association. Yedamura was the first ambassador
of Japan accredited to Armenia.

During the visit, Armenian-Japanese interagency discussions were
held between Baiburdyan and Chikahito Harada, general director of the
European directorate at the foreign ministry of Japan. Baiburdyan was
in Japan from October 29 to November 4 at the invitation of Japanese
foreign ministry within the program "Promoting cooperation in 21st
century."