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No Mnatsakanyan-Pompeo meeting planned – Armenian Foreign Ministry
YEREVAN. Jan 10
There is no meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the schedule of acting Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, Armenian Foreign Ministry press secretary Anna Nagdalyan told Interfax on Thursday, speaking of the minister's upcoming visit to Washington.
Suren Sargsyan, an Armenian political analyst and expert on U.S. affairs, had said that such a meeting was in the works.
"A meeting between Mnatsakanyan and Pompeo is being prepared. It will be held in Washington, D.C. in approximately two months. The last meeting in this format was held in 2013," Sargsyan wrote on Facebook.
"The media is kept duly informed about the minister's meetings with his colleagues. Please rely on official sources in such cases," Nagdalyan said.