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    ArmenPress
    Jan 25 2005


    ARMENIAN PRESIDENT TO VISIT ITALY

    YEREVAN, JANUARY 25, ARMENPRESS: Armenian president Robert
    Kocharian is flying January 27 to Italy for an official three-day
    visit at the invitation of his Italian counterpart Carlo Azeglio
    Ciampi. Foreign minister Vartan Oskanian, trade and economic
    development and agricultural ministers, other officials and
    businessmen will accompany the president.
    In Rome Kocharian will be received by the President of the Senate
    Marcello Pera, the President of the Chamber of Deputies (the Italian
    Parliament's Lower Chamber) Pier Ferdinando Casini and Prime Minister
    Silvio Berlusconi. Meetings are also scheduled with representatives
    of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and
    Italian businessmen.
    Armenian and Italian officials will sign a Memorandum on the Small
    and Medium Enterprises Sector and an agreement on co-operation
    between the two Ministries of Justice. A Joint Declaration will be
    also issued during the visit.
    In Vatican Kocharian will be welcomed by Pope John Paul II and
    Cardinal Angelo Sodano. Kocharian will also meet with Patriarch
    Nerses-Poghos, the head of Catholic Armenians and will watch also the
    recently erected monument to Gregory the Enlightener in Vatican.
    On January 28 Kocharian will travel to Venice to meet with its
    mayor and members of the Italian Armenian community. In Venice
    Kocharian will visit Murad Rafaelian School and the Mkhetarist
    Congregation.
    This will be the second official visit by Kocharian to Italy.
    In an interview to Armenpress Italian ambassador to Armenia, Marco
    Clemente, described bilateral political relations as "excellent."
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