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President of Armenia to visit "natural ally" Greece
by Tigran Liloyan - ITAR-TASS News Agency, November 21, 2000, Tuesday
Posted: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 08:19 pm CST

YEREVAN, November 21

President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan on Tuesday began a state visit to Greece which he described as "Armenia's natural ally in the region" in his interview with Greek national television.

The visit is expected to mark a new phase in the development of Armenian-Greek cooperation. The Armenian president's press secretary Vage Gabriyelyan told Itar-Tass that the Armenian leader is scheduled to meet President of Greece Constantinos Stephanopoulos, Prime Minister Constantinos Simitis and the minister of foreign affairs.

Mayor of Yerevan Albert Bazeyan is due to sign with the Mayor of Athens a protocol of friendship and cooperation between the capitals of the two countries.

Robert Kocharyan will meet members of the Armenian community in Greece which numbers some ten thousand people and visit Thessaloniki where an agreement on cooperation with the Armenian city of Gyumri, former Leninakan, will be signed.

Relations between Armenia and Greece are warm and friendly in character, the presidential press secretary said. In political relations of the two countries, there are no problems and Armenia and Greece have formed the necessary legal framework for their economic cooperation. A number of joint enterprises are already operating in Armenia, the latest among them, Masis-Tobacco, having opened last Saturday.

Armenia and Greece are interacting effectively in international organisations. The press secretary stressed in particular the importance of cooperation of Armenia, Greece and Iran with their trilateral contacts in the sphere of industry, technologies, science, trade, transport and telecommunications.

Vage Gabriyelyan recalled that the then President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan had visited Athens in 1996 and Greek President Constantinos Stephanopoulos had paid a visit to Yerevan last year.

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