Aysor, Armenia
Oct 31 2009

The Armenian President received Rafayel Marttinet

The Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has received the chairman of the
International Federation of Wrestling Rafayel Marttinet. As the Press
Office of the RA President informs S. Sargsyan assured that his visit
will serve a new stimuli to develop the cooperation.

`The wrestling in Armenia is traditionally respected and succeeded
type of sport, which today also gets a lot of attention though here as
in all other cases too we would like to have much better results’, –
told the head of the country. `That is the reason why our national
Olympic committee and the Ministry of Sport try to concentrate their
attention on this sport. We whish that much more children to get
involved in wrestling, we make the conditions better, we try to
organize competitions in Armenia as these are the ways that will bring
to better results.’

They have discussed the possibilities of passing the World Greek-Roman
wrestling tournament of 2010 in Armenia. The President of Armenian has
mentioned that our country is interested in organizing such high
quality tournaments.

`It will be a fest for the Armenian wrestling funs and the young
sportsmen as they will have that wish to see many prominent sportsmen,
and watch their performances’, – Serzh Sargsyan mentioned.