PRESIDENT SERZH SARGSYAN WILL BE LEAVING FOR A THREE-DAY STATE VISIT TO THE REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY
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Nov 8 2009
Armenia
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-a-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.