PRESIDENT SARGSYAN INVITED TO BULGARIA FOR AN OFFICIAL VISIT
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29.04.2008 15:30
President Serzh Sargsyan today received the Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of Bulgaria to Armenia Todor Marinov Staykov.
The Ambassador conveyed to Serzh Sargsyan the invitation of the
Bulgarian President Georgi Prvanov to pay an official visit to
Bulgaria. Serzh Sargsyan attached importance to the development of
traditional partnership relations with Bulgaria and the cooperation
within the framework of the European Neighborhood Policy.
Highly appreciating the level of the Armenian-Bulgarian dialogue,
the President said the economic ties still yield to the political
ones and underlined the necessity of launching active cooperation in
the economic sphere.
During the meeting reference was made to the process of settlement of
the Karabakh issue, the militant statement s of Azerbaijan. According
to Serzh Sargsyan, joining the Council of Europe, Armenia and
Azerbaijan assumed the responsibility to solve all the disputable
issues in a peaceful way. At the same time, he said the people of
Nagorno Karabakh have acquired the right to be free and independent,
and’ it’s not possible not take the natural right of the peoples to
self-determination into consideration.