SARGSYAN: IRAN, ARMENIA TIES VITAL

PRESS TV
April 10 2008
Iran

The newly appointed Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has termed his
country’s cordial ties with Iran as ‘valuable’ and ‘significant’.

In a meeting with Iranian Minister of Energy Seyyed Parviz Fattah
who is currently in Yerevan, Sargsyan praised Tehran’s crucial and
constructive role in the region.

Fattah who attended Sagsyan’s swearing-in ceremony conveyed President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s congratulatory message to him and called for
strengthening of bilateral ties.

He also presented President Ahmadinejad’s invitation to Sargsyan to
visit Iran, which was welcomed by Armenian president.

Serzh Sargsyan was sworn in as President at Yerevan’s opera
house in front of an audience of hundreds of officials, including
parliamentarians and foreign dignitaries and guests.

Sargsyan won 53 percent of the vote in the February election.