Nicosia: House Speaker in Armenia on official visit

Emil Lazarian 2018
Cyprus News Agency
May 18, 2018 Friday
House Speaker in Armenia on official visit
 
 
House Speaker Dimitris Syllouris departs on Sunday evening for Armenia on a three-day official visit at the invitation of the President of the National Assembly of Armenia Ara Babloyan. The Cyprus Delegation includes MPs Nicos Tornaritis, Yiorgos Τ. Georgiou, Christos Orpanides and Yiorgos Perdikis and Vartkes Mahdessian, the Representative of the Armenian community in the Cyprus House of Representatives.
 
Syllouris and his delegation will hold meetings with the President of the National Assembly, the Armenian President Armen Sarkissian, the Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanian. They will also be received by the Catholicos of All Armenians, Garekin II.
 
Cyprus House Speaker will deliver a speech at the National Assembly and will lay a wreath at the Monument for the Armenian Genocide.
 
The President of the National Assembly will host an official dinner for Syllouris while the Vice President Eduard Sharmazanov will host a lunch for the members of the delegation. Syllouris and the Cyprus MPs will also visit places of historic and cultural importance.
 
The delegation returns home on Thursday.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS