ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA VISITED RUSSIAN SARATOV REGION
Pan Armenian News
18.06.2005 03:19
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Within the framework of an unofficial visit Armenian
Ambassador to Russia Armen Smbatyan visited Saratov Friday. The
diplomat met with Saratov region Governor Pavel Ipatov, Bishop of
Saratov and Volsk Longin and representatives of the local Armenian
community. The Ambassador also planted a tree in the National Village
Armenian yard of the local ethnographic museum under open sky. “The
foreign policy of our state lies in building relations exactly with
Russian provinces,” A. Smbatyan commented on the goal of his visit to
Saratov. In his words, “the Saratov region is one of the closest and
most interesting regions to Armenia.” “The Governor was changed here
lately and I considered necessary to come here to get acquainted with
Pavel Ipatov, invite him to Armenia with an official call and adjust
the framework and the terms of the signing of a large agreement on
cooperation between the Republic of Armenia and the Saratov region
of Russia that will include the economic, cultural and educational
blocks,” the Ambassador explained. “We are interested in increasing
the volume of commodity turnover between Armenia and the Saratov
region, especially in the military industry and tourism,” the Armenian
diplomat said.