BARONESS COX AWARDED RA PRIME MINISTER’S MEMORIAL MEDAL

armradio.am
25.09.2008 17:22

According to today’s decision of RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan,
the Vice-Speaker of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, President of the British-Armenian
Parliamentary Group, Baroness Caroline Cox was awarded a memorial medal
of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia for her considerable
contribution to the reinforcement and development of Armenian-British
ties and the friendly relations with the Armenian people. Today the
Prime Minister handed the medal during the meeting with Baroness Cox
at RA Government.

During her recurrent visit to NKR and Armenia Baroness Cox was
accompanied by a large delegation of people interested in Armenia and
Artsakh, who will become the best friends of Armenia in the future,
according to the Baroness.

Greeting the guests, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan expressed
gratitude to Caroline Cox, noting that the Baroness, who has become
a legendary personality for our people, is very well-known in Armenia
and Artsakh thanks to the various missions she realized.

The Vice-Speaker of the UK House of Lords Caroline Cox told the Prime
Minister about her recurrent visit, noting that she spent most of her
trip on the sacred land of Artsakh participating in the celebration
of the 10th anniversary of the rehabilitation centre established with
her assistance.

Baroness Cox thanked the Prime Minister for the awards and the
warm words.

During the meeting with Tigran Sargsyan she said to be interested in
the possible influence of the declaration of independence of Abkhazia
and South Ossetia on the process of settlement of the Karabakh
conflict, the current state of Armenian-Turkish relations after the
Turkish President’s visit to Armenia and well as the approaches of
the Armenian authorities on the matter. The Prime Minister presented
the official stance of our country on the above-mentioned issues.