ARMENIAN CONSULATE IN LA HOSTS CONSULAR CORPS MEETING

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Thursday February 11, 2010

Burbank, Calif. – The Consul General of Armenia Grigor Hovhanissian
hosted the first planning meeting and the luncheon of the Los Angeles
Consular Corps (LACC) in the Armenian Center of Burbank on January 28.

The luncheon was attended by various Consular missions accredited to
Los Angeles and Orange Counties, representatives of the LA city office
of protocol, US Secret Service, Police and Diplomatic Protection Unit,
as well as Mr. Paul Krekorian, the newly elected councilman of the
LA city council.

The Dean of the LA Consular Corps, Honorable Ambassador Inocencio
Arias Llamas of Spain introduced the Consul Generals of Paraguay and
Croatia who recently assumed their duties in Los Angeles. The LACC
working session was followed by a lunch and Armenian cultural program.

The 35th Governor of California, the Honorable George Deukmejian, the
guest speaker of the event, addressed the audience with a presentation
on economic interdependence and international trade models that have
been successfully employed in California over the last decades. Mr.

Deukmejian also answered diplomats’ questions about the political
and economic outlook in California and a few episodes from his
gubernatorial career.