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09, 2009

Official visit of President Serzh Sargsyan to Croatia

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The President of the Republic of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, who is in Croatia on a two-day official visit, together with the President of the Republic of Croatia, Stjepan Masic attended this morning the first Armenian-Croatian Business forum in Zagreb and gave a speech. The decision to organize this forum was reached during the official visit of the President of Croatia to Armenia. The forum was attended by nearly one hundred Armenian and Croatian businessmen, representing different areas of economy. In the framework of the Presidential visit the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Armenia and the Chamber of Commerce of Croatia signed the Agreement on Cooperation.

The President of Armenia visited the observatory of Zagreb, familiarized with the state-of-the-art “Sevan” device for astrological observations created with the assistance of Yerevan Institute of Physics and learned about the programs jointly implemented by the astrophysics of Armenia and Croatia. The President of Armenia visited also the Museum of Zagreb history, learned about the history of the capital and studied the original documents. President Sargsyan visited also the summer residence turned museum of the renowned political leader Tito on Veliki Bryn island, where he observed exhibits and documents related to the political biography of J. B. Tito. Accompanied by President Stjepan Masic, President Sargsyan visited also the tavern built by Tito decades ago.

Today, in Zagreb the President of Armenia met also with the President of the National Assembly of Croatia Luka Bebic. The parties reiterated existing mutual political will to move the Armenian-Croatian relations forward in bilateral as well as multilateral formats. Serzh Sargsyan and Luka Bebic stressed the importance of establishing interparliamentary groups of friendship in the two countries and cooperation in the interparliamentary international structures. The President of the Republic of Armenia presented to the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament the latest developments of his initiative aimed at the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations and the current stage of the NK peace process.

In the evening of September 8, the delegation headed by the President of Armenia returned to Yerevan.

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