NEW AMBASSADOR OF SLOVENIA CONVEYS COPIES OF HIS CREDENTIALS TO RA MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Noyan Tapan
Dec 20 2007

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. Primo Seligo (Kiev-based),
the newly-appointed Ambassador of Slovenia, conveyed the copies
of his credentials to Vardan Oskanian, the RA Minister of Foreign
Affairs on December 19. During the conversation, which followed the
ceremony of conveying the copies of the credentials, Vardan Oskanian
mentioned that Armenia attached importance to the development of the
Armenian-Slovenian relations and intends to strengthen and deepen
the bilateral relations still more.

The newly-appointed Ambassador of Slovenia also expressed content in
connection with the active cooperation between Armenia and Slovenia
and made assertions that that he will take every effort to strengthen
the bilateral relations still more and make them more meaningful.

Taking into consideration the fact that Slovenia is assuming the EU
Chairmanship since January 1, 2008, Vardan Oskanian paid a special
attention to the problems concerning the Armenia-European Union
cooperation, including the problems concerning the formation and
further implementation of the directions of a concrete cooperation
with the EU member states, as well as Slovenia within the framework
of the Action Plan.

Reference: Primo Seligo was born in 1966. He graduated from the
Faculty of Economics of the University of Lyublyana. Since 1992 he has
been working in the European Economic Integration Department of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, since 1994 in the Economic Integration
Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1995-1999 he worked
in the Embassy of Slovenia in the Russian Federation as the second
secretary, in 2000-2001 in the Embassy of Slovenia in Turkey as the
first secretary. In 2000-2004 he worked in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Slovenia as Head of the Eastern Europe Department, since
2004 he has been the Ambassador of Slovenia to the Ukraine, since
2006 Ambassador of Slovenia to Georgia, pluralistically. He is not
married. He masters the English, Russian, and Italian languages.