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KREMLIN SAYS PUTIN HELD PHONE TALKS WITH ARMENIAN COUNTERPART
Big News Network
March 12 2015
RFE Thursday 12th March, 2015
The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken by phone
with his Armenian counterpart, Serzh Sarkisian.
In a statement released on March 12, Putin's press service said he
and Sarksian discussed their countries' "partnership" as well as
"integration processes" within the Eurasian Economic Union (EES),
which Armenia joined in January.
Among other issues discussed were upcoming events marking the
centennial of mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and
the 70th anniversary of the Nazi defeat in World War II.
The statement came amid rumors -- denied by the Kremlin -- that the
62-year-old Putin is ill.
Putin had been scheduled to visit Kazakhstan on March 12-13 and meet
there with the presidents of the other two founding members of the
EES -- Belarus and Kazakhstan -- but his spokesman said on March 11
that the trip had been postponed for several days.
Sarkisian was apparently not invited to the meeting.
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/231020415
From: A. Papazian
Big News Network
March 12 2015
RFE Thursday 12th March, 2015
The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken by phone
with his Armenian counterpart, Serzh Sarkisian.
In a statement released on March 12, Putin's press service said he
and Sarksian discussed their countries' "partnership" as well as
"integration processes" within the Eurasian Economic Union (EES),
which Armenia joined in January.
Among other issues discussed were upcoming events marking the
centennial of mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and
the 70th anniversary of the Nazi defeat in World War II.
The statement came amid rumors -- denied by the Kremlin -- that the
62-year-old Putin is ill.
Putin had been scheduled to visit Kazakhstan on March 12-13 and meet
there with the presidents of the other two founding members of the
EES -- Belarus and Kazakhstan -- but his spokesman said on March 11
that the trip had been postponed for several days.
Sarkisian was apparently not invited to the meeting.
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/231020415
From: A. Papazian