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    RF PM MEETS WITH HEAD OF ARMENIA CHURCH AT EJMIADZIN

    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    Feb 6 2008

    EJMIADZIN, Armenia, February 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Prime Minister
    Viktor Zubkov had a conversation at Ejmiadzin on Wednesday with head
    of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Garegin II. The meeting
    wound up the prime minister's official visit to Armenia.

    "The visit is over," Zubkov said, addressing Garegin II. "I arrived
    here yesterday. We put in a day's work today with the Armenian prime
    minister and the parliamentary speaker. I also had a meeting with
    the president and with you."

    "We are glad to welcome you at Ejmiadzin, which is the spiritual and
    administrative centre of the Armenian Apostolic Church," Garegin II
    told the Russian premier.

    He presented Zubkov with an Armenian cross and an album with
    photographs. Zubkov presented the Catholicos of all Armenians with
    twelve silver medals with the image of St Nicholas the Miracle-Worker.

    Garegin II showed to his guest a unique relic of the Armenian Apostolic
    Church - a stone cross, executed in 1308. The premier was also shown
    the Armenian alphabet and an Armenian cross made of gold in 1973.

    Then Zubkov went to the Cathedral of the Armenian Apostolic Church
    built in the 15th century. Chiefs of the Armenian patriarchate took the
    premier on a unique tour to the alter-space where even high-ranking
    guests are rarely taken. Zubkov saw the cathedral's treasure house
    that contains such relics, as part of Noah's ark from Mount Ararat,
    a fragment of the cross of Christ, silver crosses dating from the
    10th - 14th centuries, ancient Armenian icons, and the spear with
    which the body of the crucified Christ was pierced.

    Zubkov was also taken to the excavation site of the first, ancient
    tier of the cathedral where St Gregory founded this temple on the
    site of a pagan shrine.
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