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11, 2009

President Serzh Sargsyan will be leaving for a three-day state visit to the Republic of Hungary

On November 8, President Serzh Sargsyan will be leaving for a three-day state visit to the Republic of Hungary.

The Presidential delegation comprises the Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandian, Minister of Justice Gevork Danielian, Minister for Diaspora Affairs Hranush Hakopian, Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghossian, Minister of Agriculture Gerasim Alaverdian, Chairman of the Parliamentary group Armenia-Hungary, MP Gagik Melikian, and other officials.

The President of Armenia will arrive to Budapest in the evening of November 8.
On November 9, the official ceremony of welcoming the President of Armenia will take place at the residence of the President of Hungary, which will be followed by a tête-à-tête meeting of Presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Laszlo Solyom. Later, the Presidents will be joined by their delegations. The Governments of the two states will sign a number of documents on bilateral cooperation.

After the signing ceremony the President of Armenia and the President of Hungary will make a joint statement for the press. In the afternoon, the President of Armenia will meet with the Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament Bela Katona.

President Sargsyan will visit the Heroes’ Square in Budapest and will lay a wreath at the memorial. In Petefi Square the President of Armenia will lay a wreath at the khachkar dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

In the evening, the President of Hungary Laszlo Solyom will give a state dinner in honor of the President of Armenia.

On November 10, President Sargsyan will meet with Cardinal Peter Erdo and Prime Minister of Hungary Gordon Bajnai, as well as the participants of the Armenian-Hungarian business forum.

In Budapest President Sargsyan will also go for sightseeing. Together with the President of Hungary, he will tour the Budapest Museum of Military History.
In the second half of the day, at the invitation of the Governor of Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation Georgi Bross, the President of Armenia will leave from Budapest for Kaliningrad on a working visit. He will meet with the Governor of the region as well as with the representatives of the Armenian community. In Kaliningrad, the President of Armenia will attend the official ceremony of inauguration of the Armenian Cultural Center and will lay flowers at the khachkar-monument.

On November 11, the President of Armenia will return to Yerevan.

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