PRESIDENT OF LATVIA EXPRESSES WILLINGNESS TO VISIT ARMENIA NEXT YEAR

Noyan Tapan

Nov 21, 2008

RIGA, NOVEMBER 21, NOYAN TAPAN. On November 20, President of Latvia
Valdis Zatlers receiving RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian being
in Latvia on an official visit said that Latvia is interested in
further deepening and strengthening of relations with Armenia. He
said that he wishes to visit Armenia next year.

E. Nalbandian, in his turn, said that the high-level political dialogue
and the large legal-contractual field between the two countries are
a good basis for further expansion of cooperation. The RA Foreign
Minister presented the President of Latvia with the negotiations
process of Nagorno Karabakh settlement, the possibilities of
normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations.

The Armenia-European Union relations were touched upon during the
meeting.

Meaning the experience accumulated by Latvia in the sphere of European
integration, V. Zatlers expressed readiness to provide all-round
assistance to Armenia in that direction.

As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA Foreign Ministry Press and
Information Department, the same day E. Nalbandian visited Saint
Gregory the Illuminator Church in Riga where he met with the members
of the Church Council.

Completing his official visit to Latvia in the second half of the
day on November 20, E. Nalbandian left for Estonia.