NKR FOREIGN MINISTER INTRODUCED THE KARABAKH SETTLEMENT PROCESS IN LEBANON
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
2010-02-16 10:48
Within his three-day visit to Lebanon, Foreign Minister of the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic Georgy Petrossian had a series of meetings.
On February 11, the NKR Foreign Minister participated in the liturgy
dedicated to the Vardanants Holiday, which was held in the patron
saint monastery of Antilias. Then, he made a speech for the Lebanon
Armenians participating in the festive event held in the hall of the
Patriarch’s Chamber, as well as in the official dinner organized on
behalf of Cilician Great Home Catholicos Aram I.
Georgy Petrossian introduced detailed information on the Karabakh
conflict settlement process. Ministers of Armenian origin, Deputies,
leaders of political parties, representatives of the Armenian
community, confessors, Armenia’s Ambassador to Lebanon Ashot Qocharyan,
and others participated in the events.
On February 12 and 13, the NKR Foreign Minister had separate
meetings with Patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church Nerses Petros
XIX, Chairman of the Middle East Evangelic Churches Union Mkrtich
Karagyozyan, representatives of the Artsakh Union, Armenian political
parties and mass media and answered their numerous questions.
Within the visit, Georgy Petrossian visited also the families of
the soldiers-liberators deceased in Artsakh, laid a wreath at the
Memorial Complex commemorating the Armenian Genocide victims, which
is situated in the yard of the patron saint Antilias Catholicate.