Sarkissian holds meeting with Russian Presidential Special Representative Mikhail Shvydkoy

16:46, 7 June, 2019

YEREVAN, JUNE 7, ARMENPRESS. President Armen Sarkissian has held a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Special Representative for International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoy who is visiting the country to take part in the Armenian Summit of Minds.

During the meeting the sides exchanged ideas over the Armenian-Russian cultural similarities and strenghening cooperation in humanitarian fields.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS