AMBASSADORS ACCREDITED TO ARMENIA EXPRESSED THEIR CONDOLENCES

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
16.07.2009 16:52 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ambassadors accredited to Armenia visited RA Foreign
Ministry to express their condolences to the families of those killed
at Tu-154 jet crash.

Iranian Ambassador to Armenia Seyed Ali Saghaeyan expressed his
condolences to the families of Iranians and Armenians killed at
plane crash and thanked Armenian authorities for support extended to
Iranian people.

He also informed that on July 17, all those wishing to condole with
the families of catastrophe victims can leave their entries in a Book
of condolences at Iranian Embassy in Armenia.

Ambassadors of Iran, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Lebanon, Kazakhstan
ad well as UN Resident Coordinator Consuelo Vidal left their signatures
in the Book of condolences.

On June 15, the Caspian Airlines Russian made Tupolev jet was heading
from Tehran to the Armenian capital Yerevan when it crashed at 11:33
am local time (0803GMT), 16 minutes after take-off from Tehran’s Imam
Khomeini International Airport. All the 168 passengers on board have
been killed, 35 of them with Armenian family names.

July 16 was announced a mourning day in Armenia.