ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR TO EGYPT MEETS WITH EGYPT’S SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF ANTIQUITIES

ARMENPRESS
MAY 7,2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, MAY 7, ARMENPRESS: On May 6, Armenian Ambassador to Egypt
Armen Melkonyan met with Egypt’s Secretary General of the Supreme
Council of Antiquities, world famous specialist of Egyptian studies
Zahi Hawass. Ambassador Melkonyan presented to Zahi Hawass the
achievements of the Armenian-Egyptian cooperation in the spheres of
science, education and culture.

Armenian Foreign Affairs Ministry press service told Armenpress
that in his turn Zahi Hawass highly appraised the participation of
the Geology, Archeology and Ethnography Institutes of the Armenian
National Academy of Sciences in the excavations of the temple of
Amenhotep III since 2007.

He simultaneously addressed a speech of appraisal to Armenian
specialist of Egyptian studies and architect Nairi Hambikyan for the
outstanding contribution to the archeological researches carried out
in Egypt.

An agreement has been gained over the joint study of the prospects
of the further progress of the Armenian-Egyptian cooperation.