ARMENIAN PRESIDENT TO START HIS ALL-ARMENIAN TOUR OCTOBER 1

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 25, ARMENPRESS: A one-week All-Armenian tour of the
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to Armenian communities will kick
off October 1. The deputy head of the Armenian president’s staff Vigen
Sargsyan told today to reporters that it is necessary to single out
the goal of the tour and its symbol: the goal is to listen to the
opinion of Diaspora and its approaches toward such important issue as
the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations. And here the
important thing is the symbol of the visit: for the first time the
president is making such an all-national tour the goal of which is to
be in all the Armenian-populated communities where the public opinion
of Diaspora and its approaches are being formed.
Armenian president will visit Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Beirut
and Rostov on Don where he will have regional meetings.
The Armenian side has not asked political meetings in any of the
visiting countries as the goal of the visit is only contacts with
Diaspora. In each of the cities the president will spend not more than
24 hours which is not enough for conducting any other additional
event. The only exclusion is Los Angeles where the president is going
to give an extended interview to one of the Armenian channels
functioning there.