MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI AWARDED ARMENIAN ORDER OF HONOR

Noyan Tapan
June 29, 2009

YEREVAN, JUNE 29, NOYAN TAPAN. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili
arrived in Armenia on a two-day official visit with his wife, Sandra
Rulovs on June 24. High-ranking guest’s solemn meeting ceremony at
RA President’s residence was followed by Presidents Serzh Sargsyan’s
and Mikheil Saakashvili’s tete-a-tete talk, after which official
delegations’ meeting in an enlarged staff took place.

Mentioning that few peoples in the world can be proud of such
long-lasting and good-neighborly relations like relations between
Armenian and Georgian peoples, S. Sargsyan said: "We are obliged to
multiply what we inherited from our ancestors."

S. Sargsyan and M. Saakashvili said that frequent meetings and
negotiations help to quickly clarify issues of bilateral interest
and ways of their solution.

As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA President’s Press Office,
issues related to cargo transportations through the territory of
Georgia, bilateral communication, tourism development, as well
as educational-cultural cooperation were discussed during the
negotiations. The process of Armenian-Georgian border’s demarcation
was also touched upon.

For making active the contacts between the Armenian and Georgian
peoples S.

Sargsyan attached importance to the necessity of organizing joint
events in various spheres and making them traditional. He, in
particular, suggested holding annual school olympiads in various
subjects, as well as sports contests. They arranged to hold the first
school olympiad this autumn.

At the end of the meeting S. Sargsyan awarded Order of Honor to Mikheil
Saakashvili, which is the highest state award of Armenia given to
foreign citizens and which the Georgian President was awarded by the
RA President’s June 24 decree, for his activity aimed at strengthening
the Armenian-Georgian centuries-old friendship, deepening cooperation
between Armenia and Georgia.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress