June 7, 2005 - 09:42 AMT
ARMENIAN PM VISITED EXPO-2005
Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan visited EXPO-2005 in Aichi State, Japan, where he participated in the opening of the Armenian stand dedicated to the National Day of Armenia, reported the Press Service of the Armenian Government. He addressed the guests and participants of the exhibition, specifically noting that similar events, in which over 200 countries and international organizations participate, are in line with the integration processes in the world and allow establishing not only economic and commercial relations between peoples and states, but also promote cultural and humanitarian ties. In his words, EXPO-2005 will promote multilateral cooperation. Thereupon he encouraged unification of representatives of the three South Caucasian countries in Caucasus joint pavilion. «In the age of scientific and technical progress, development of economy it is necessary to use all opportunities to make peoples and states closer, to know more about each other and to specify cooperation opportunities,» Andranik Margaryan stated. Thereupon, in his words, recognizing the truth that international integration and unification is possible only via development of each sovereign state, history of each people, maintaining cultural identity. «I assure that from sunny Armenia we brought the best from the heart and the soul and it has been peculiar to the Armenian people during the ages of its history, today and in the future,» the PM said. After the opening of the Armenian stand Mr. Margaryan visited other pavilions of the EXPO. It should be noted that in Nagoya city a reception was organized for the Armenian delegation, which will today head for Tokyo, where bilateral meetings with Japanese supreme officials will be held.