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    IVANISHVILI IN YEREVAN: GEORGIA'S HEAD OF STATE IN WAITING PAYS VISIT TO ARMENIA
    By SIRANUYSH GEVORGYAN

    ArmeniaNow reporter
    NEWS | 17.01.13 | 14:57

    Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili assured the leadership
    in Yerevan that his government would do everything possible to make
    Armenians living in Georgia feel at home as he paid a visit to Armenia
    on Thursday.

    "I will do what I promised in my election program," said Ivanishvili
    at a press conference in the Armenian capital after a meeting with
    his Armenian counterpart Tigran Sargsyan, answering the question of
    what expectations about 200,000 members of the Armenian community
    of Georgia could have from the Georgian government, considering that
    many of them voted for Ivanishvili's Georgian Dream Alliance in the
    October 1 parliamentary elections.

    Georgian Dream, as an opposition bloc, won the election, with its
    leader Ivanishvili assuming the post of prime minister, which is to
    become the top post in the country after current president Mikheil
    Saakashvili's completion of term late this year.

    Before visiting Armenia, Ivanishvili was in Azerbaijan in December,
    where, as Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze said, he was
    received with "special honor".

    The Georgian prime minister's visit to Armenia comes amid certain
    tensions in Armenian-Georgian relations caused by the recent
    controversial statements by Panjikidze as well as Catholicos-Patriarch
    of All Georgia Ilia II regarding the Karabakh conflict.

    Speaking in Yerevan today Ivanishvili said that his meeting with
    Prime Minister Sargsyan was held in a very warm atmosphere.

    "Our conversation was such as if we had known each other since
    childhood. It was very warm," said the Georgian official.

    The Armenia prime minister, for his part, stressed that "there is no
    question in the Armenian-Georgian relations that cannot be settled
    through discussions."

    During the press conference, Ivanishvili was enraged by the question
    of one of the Georgian journalists who asked him to explain what,
    after all, Georgian Foreign Minister Panjikidze said about Karabakh. A
    few days ago Azeri media wrote that while in Lithuania Panjikidze
    said that the Karabakh problem should be solved from the viewpoint
    of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity. On January 15, in Prague,
    the top Georgian diplomat explained her statement, saying that in the
    Lithuanian parliament she delivered a report after which an Azerbaijani
    ambassador asked her about what position Georgia has on Azerbaijan's
    territorial integrity. And she said that Georgia supports Azerbaijan's
    territorial integrity.

    "The minister's words were distorted by the media. End of story," said
    Ivanishvili in Yerevan, adding that the problem is really complicated
    and is likely to remain such also in the future.

    Later on Friday Ivanishvili was due to meet with Armenia's President
    Serzh Sargsyan, His Holiness Karekin II, the Catholicos of All
    Armenians, as well as the ministers of foreign affairs, energy and
    natural resources and economy. Ivanishvili was also due to pay a
    visit to the Armenian Genocide Memorial at Tsitsernakaberd and the
    ancient manuscripts depository Matenadaran.

    Also today the governments of Armenia and Georgia signed an agreement
    on joint use of the customs points of Bagratashen-Sadakhlo,
    Ayrum-Sadakhlo, Gogavan-Guguti and Bavra-Ninotsminda. Armenia's
    Ministry of Culture and Georgia's Ministry of Culture and Monument
    Protection signed a program of cooperation for 2013-2015.


    From: Baghdasarian
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