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04, 2011
Official visit of President Serzh Sargsyan to Serbia
Today, President Serzh Sargsyan, who is in Serbia on official visit, met with the Patriarch of Serbia His Holiness Irinej.
The President of Armenia and Patriarch of Serbia stressed the importance of warm relations existing between the Armenian Apostolic Church and Serb Orthodox Church. The interlocutors expressed hope that the existing cooperation will gradually expand and the contacts between the Armenian and Serb people will increase.
President Serzh Sargsyan noted that the Church had played an outstanding role in the Armenian history – in the absence of statehood it time and again assumed the noble mission of uniting and leading the nation. According to the President of Armenia, today too the Church is vital for the Armenians, just as it is for the Serbs.
At the meeting with His Holiness Irinej, Serzh Sargsyan also noted that it is symbolic that the Armenian peacekeeping unit in Kosovo, within responsibilities has also assumed the task of protecting Serbian churches in Kosovo.
Today, in Belgrade President Sargsyan met also with the representatives of the Armenian community of Serbia. The President of Armenia laid flowers at the Armenian cross-stone situated next to the Saint Archangel Gabriel Church in Belgrade. The memorial is dedicated to the Serb pilots who perished in Armenia in the wake of the 1988 earthquake. President Sargsyan conversed there with the relatives of the pilots.
President Serzh Sargsyan concluded his official visit to the Republic of Serbia and in the evening returned to Yerevan.
The President of Armenia and Patriarch of Serbia stressed the importance of warm relations existing between the Armenian Apostolic Church and Serb Orthodox Church. The interlocutors expressed hope that the existing cooperation will gradually expand and the contacts between the Armenian and Serb people will increase.
President Serzh Sargsyan noted that the Church had played an outstanding role in the Armenian history – in the absence of statehood it time and again assumed the noble mission of uniting and leading the nation. According to the President of Armenia, today too the Church is vital for the Armenians, just as it is for the Serbs.
At the meeting with His Holiness Irinej, Serzh Sargsyan also noted that it is symbolic that the Armenian peacekeeping unit in Kosovo, within responsibilities has also assumed the task of protecting Serbian churches in Kosovo.
Today, in Belgrade President Sargsyan met also with the representatives of the Armenian community of Serbia. The President of Armenia laid flowers at the Armenian cross-stone situated next to the Saint Archangel Gabriel Church in Belgrade. The memorial is dedicated to the Serb pilots who perished in Armenia in the wake of the 1988 earthquake. President Sargsyan conversed there with the relatives of the pilots.
President Serzh Sargsyan concluded his official visit to the Republic of Serbia and in the evening returned to Yerevan.