LATVIAN PRESIDENT ARRIVING IN ARMENIA

armradio.am
09.12.2009 10:47

At the invitation of the President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, the
President of Latvia, Valdis Zatlers is arriving in Armenia today on
a three-day state visit. The President will be accompanied by the
Ministers of Economy, Interior Affairs and Environmental Protection,
the Chairman of the parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign
Relations, other officials.

The President of Latvia, Valdirs Zatlers, and his spouse, Lilita
Zatlers, will participate in the celebration of the 50th anniversary
of Matenadaran.

The official welcome ceremony will take at the President’s Office on
December 10 and will be followed by a face-to-face meeting between
Presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Valdis Zatlers.

A number of intergovernmental and interstate agreements will be signed,
the Presidents of the two countries will give a joint press conference.

Within the framework of the visit the President of Latvia will have
meeting with the Speaker of the National Assembly, Hovik Abrahamyan,
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and the Catholicos of All Armenians,
His Holiness Garegin II.

Valdis Zatlers will visit Tsitsernakaberd to lay a wreath at the
memorial to the Armenian Genocide victims. He will visit the Armenian
Genocide Museum-Institute and will plant a tree in the Memory Alley.

President Zatlers will meet the faculty and students of the Yerevan
State University. At the Yerevan City Hall the Latvian President
will meet Mayor Gagik Beglaryan and a number of honorable citizens
of the city.

The delegation headed by the President of Latvia will leave Armenia
on December 11.