Saakashvili is arriving in Yerevan for the first time this Friday. The transport tariffs (of goods coming to and leaving Armenia via Georgia) will be discussed, as well as other issues. If things kick off on the right foot, it may start a new era of Armeno-Georgian relations (which so far, have been lukewarm at best).
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ArmenPress
March 9 2004
GEORGIA'S PRESIDENT ARRIVES IN ARMENIA MARCH 12
YEREVAN, MARCH 9, ARMENPRESS: The president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, will pay an official two-day visit to Armenia on March 12 at the invitation of his Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharian. Kocharian's press office said the Georgian delegation is composed of foreign, energy, infrastructures and development ministers, members of the parliament, representatives of the Armenian-populated region of Javakheti and journalists.
On March 13 the two presidents will have a private conversation
after the official ceremony of welcoming, to be followed by
Georgian-Armenian negotiations. The two presidents will also brief
the journalists on the results of their talks.
During the official visit Saakashvili will meet with Armenian
parliament chairman, prime minister and representatives of the
Georgian community in Armenia. He will be received by the head of the Armenian Church Catholicos Karekin II. The itinerary of the Georgian delegation includes also a visit to Genocide Memorial where he will lay a wreath in commemoration of the victims of the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Turkish authorities. He will then visit the nearby Genocide Museum and Institute, then the Matenadaran Institute of Old Manuscripts. Saakashvili will fly back the same day.
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ArmenPress
March 9 2004
GEORGIA'S PRESIDENT ARRIVES IN ARMENIA MARCH 12
YEREVAN, MARCH 9, ARMENPRESS: The president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, will pay an official two-day visit to Armenia on March 12 at the invitation of his Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharian. Kocharian's press office said the Georgian delegation is composed of foreign, energy, infrastructures and development ministers, members of the parliament, representatives of the Armenian-populated region of Javakheti and journalists.
On March 13 the two presidents will have a private conversation
after the official ceremony of welcoming, to be followed by
Georgian-Armenian negotiations. The two presidents will also brief
the journalists on the results of their talks.
During the official visit Saakashvili will meet with Armenian
parliament chairman, prime minister and representatives of the
Georgian community in Armenia. He will be received by the head of the Armenian Church Catholicos Karekin II. The itinerary of the Georgian delegation includes also a visit to Genocide Memorial where he will lay a wreath in commemoration of the victims of the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Turkish authorities. He will then visit the nearby Genocide Museum and Institute, then the Matenadaran Institute of Old Manuscripts. Saakashvili will fly back the same day.
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