MM LEE MEETS ARMENIA’S TOP RELIGIOUS LEADER

The Straits Times
Singapore
September 20, 2009 Sunday

Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew yesterday met His Holiness Karekin II,
Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, the top religious
leader in Armenia, at his residence just before leaving Armenia
for Moscow.

Also present was Singapore Ambassador to Russia Simon Tensing de Cruz
(left).

Armenia was the first country in the world to declare Christianity
as a state religion.

MM Lee was in the capital Yerevan as part of a three-country tour
that started in Britain.

Last Friday, he called on Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, and met
government leaders and businessmen. Mr Lee is the first Singapore
leader to visit the country.

Today, he is due to attend the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management’s
international advisory board meeting and deliver an address at the
school’s opening ceremony.