NEWLY APPOINTED ARGENTINEAN AMBASSADOR HANDS OVER HIS CREDENTIALS

YEREVAN, JULY 9, ARMENPRESS: Newly appointed Argentinean
ambassador to Armenian Leopoldo Alfredo Bravo (seated in Moscow)
handed over his credentials to the Armenian President Serzh
Sargsian. Presidential press service told Armenpress that the
president congratulated the ambassador on assuming his diplomatic
mission and on the National Holiday of Argentina ` Independence Day
marked on July 9.
Serzh Sargsian expressed hope that during the tenure of the new
ambassador the relations between the two countries will activate and
expand. The Armenian president said that from geographic respect
Armenia and Argentina are quite far but have warm attitude towards
each other.
The interlocutors also underscored the role of the Argentinean
Armenian community which, according to ambassador, is fully involved
in different spheres of life.
In the economic field the sides underscored the investment
programs carried out in Armenia by the Argentinean Armenian
businessman Eduardo Ernekian. The ambassador said that he is ready to
focus his efforts towards the further expansion of
Armenian-Argentinean cooperation and considered very important the
opening of the Argentinean embassy in Yerevan.
The Armenian president wished success to the ambassador in all his
initiatives and said that the Armenian side is ready to support him.