NEWLY APPOINTED RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA HANDS OVER COPY OF HIS CREDENTIALS TO RA FOREIGN MINISTER

Noyan Tapan
Aug 25, 2009

YEREVAN, AUGUST 25, NOYAN TAPAN. RA Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward
Nalbandian received Vyacheslav Kovalenko, the newly appointed Russian
Ambassador to Armenia, on the occasion of handing the copies of the
credentials on August 24.

Greeting the guest Minister Edward Nalbandian congratulated him on
the occasion of being appointed the Russian Ambassador to Armenia
and wished him success in implementing his diplomatic mission. Highly
appreciating the Armenian-Russian relations, Edward Nalbandian said
that the mutual understanding, trust and cooperation between Russia
and Armenia create a good basis for strengthening allied relations
and military cooperation for the general benefit of the two brotherly
nations, and that the Ambassador Kovalenko will have an important
contribution in the process of further deepening and expanding the
cooperation.

According to the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press and Public
Relations Deparment, in his turn, Ambassador Kovalenko appreciating
the current state of Armenian-Russian relations noted that he will
do his best for strengthening the present cooperation, and for the
development of the bilateral relations in different spheres.

At the meeting Edward Nalbandian and Ambassador Kovalenko discussed a
series of questions concerning the Armenian-Russian agenda, exchanged
thoughts on the territorial and international issues.

Vyacheslav Kovalenko was born in 1946. He graduated from the Institute
of Oriental Languages under M. Lomonosov Moscow University. He has
begun his diplomatic service since 1973. He took the position of
Deputy Director of CIS Second Department of Russian Foreign Ministry
in 2004-2006. He was appointed the Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of Russia to Georgia in 2006. He speaks Arabic,
Belarusian and French. He is married and has three children.