ARMENIAN PRESIDENT ROBERT KOCHARYAN CONGRATULATES ABDULLAH GUL ON ELECTION AS TURKISH PRESIDENT
arminfo
2007-08-30 01:45:00
On August 29, Armenian President Robert Kocharyan congratulated
Abdullah Gul on election as President of Turkey, Hasmik Petrosyan,
Head of the presidential press department, told Radio Liberty.
Vladimir Karapetian, Armenian FM Spokesperson, told the source that
for his part, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian also sent a
felicitation to Abdullah Gul. The Leader of the Heritage Party and
the first Foreign Minister of independent Armenia, Raffi Hovannisian,
also congratulated the new Turkish President. In particular, he
expressed hope that with Gul’s election as President of Turkey the
Turkish- Armenian relations will shortly pass to a different level
of development.
In its turn, the source recalls that the previous President of Turkey,
Ahmet Sezer, congratulated Robert Kocharyan on reelection as Armenian
President in 2003.
From: Baghdasarian