NEWLY APPOINTED AMBASSADOR OF ALBANIA HANDS COPY OF HIS CREDENTIALS TO RA FOREIGN MINISTER EDWARD NALBANDIAN

/ARKA/
December 21, 2009
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 21, NOYAN TAPAN. RA Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian received Ambassador of Albania to RA Vili Minarolli
(residence Athens) on December 21 on the occasion of the ceremony
of handing the credentials. The RA Foreign Minister assured that
the Ministry will assist the Ambassador in implementation of his
mission as far as possible. The Minister expressed the hope that
V. Minarolli will have an important contribution to development of
bilateral relations and fulfillment of the agreements.

According to the RA Foreign Ministry Press and Information Department,
at the meeting the sides discussed issues of bilateral interest,
attached importance to the necessity of activization of political,
economic and cultural contacts between Armenia and Albania. They
reached an agreement to periodically hold consultations between the
two countries’ Foreign Ministries and to undertake steps to form
proper legal-contractual sphere.

E. Nalbandian and V. Minarolli also exchanged thoughts over Caucasian
and Balkan regional problems.

V. Minarolli was born in 1944 in Elbasan. He graduated from Tirana
University Natural Sciences Department. From 1993 he worked at the
Foreign Ministry system of Albania. In 2001-2005 he was a member
of the Albanian parliamentary delegation in the Black Sea Economic
Cooperation Parliamentary Assembly. From 2006 March he was appointed
Ambassador of Albania to the Republic of Greece. He masters English
and Italian. He is married, has two sons.