LITHUANIA’S PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES ARMENIAN COLLEAGUE ON NATIONAL HOLIDAY
Baltic News Service
September 21, 2009 Monday 11:56 PM EET
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite Monday sent congratulations
to her Armenian counterpart, Serzh Sargsyan, on Armenia’s national
holiday, the Independence Day and said the countries should seek
creation of a common future in unified Europe. The president wrote
in the letter that Armenia and Lithuania, as small countries, have
to deal with similar challenges and problems, and that even being
geographically distant, Lithuania and Armenia can and must seek
common action, the President’s Office said. "Having re-established
independence almost at the same time two decades ago, our two nations
have to join their endeavors today to create a common future within
unified Europe," reads the letter. Armenia declared independence
from the Soviet Union during a nation-wide referendum on Sept. 21
1991. Armenia, which traditionally maintains close relations with
Russia, was included in the European Union’s (EU) Eastern Partnership
program earlier this year.
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