Robert Kocharian Urged Not To Dramatize The Fact That The U.S. Presi

ROBERT KOCHARIAN URGED NOT TO DRAMATIZE THE FACT THAT THE U.S. PRESIDENT HAS NOT TILL NOW CONGRATULATED THE NEWLY-ELECTED ARMENIAN PRESIDENT

Mediamax
March 20, 2008

Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian President Robert Kocharian urged today
not to dramatize the fact that the U.S. President has not till now
congratulated the newly-elected Armenian President.

Mediamax reports that, speaking at a news conference in Yerevan today,
Robert Kocharian reminded that "I received congratulations from George
Bush on April 10 of 2003, the following day after I entered the second
presidential term".

"It did not prevent me from working efficiently in the course of the
recent 5 years and effectively developing the Armenian-U.S. relations",
the Armenian President stated.

According to Robert Kocharian, the issues of official congratulations
"depend on political estimations, the work of Ambassadors, their
reports, or personal sympathies".