On March 5, 2019, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia His Excellency Mr. Grigor Hovhannisyan visited the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem and met with His Beatitude Abp. Nourhan Manoigian, the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Mr. Hovhannisyan was accompanied by His Excellency Mr. Armen Smbatyan the Armenian Ambassador to Israel, the Israeli Honorary Consul to Armenia Mr. Ashot Shakhmuradian and Mr. Yuri Babukhanyan.