The agenda of the visit was discussed at March 2 Supreme Spiritual Council meeting.

It has become a tradition for Turkey to begin a fight against United States’ recognition of the Armenian Genocide every year before April 24. She may succeed this time too, taking into consideration the fact that existence of the Turkish state depends on recognition or non-recognition of the Armenian Genocide. However, voting in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will not change anything, like it was in 2007.

The government announced plans to connect most of Armenia’s general and secondary schools to the internet and join them into a unified network by 2011. The director of National Center for Educational Technologies Areg Grigoryan said 624 schools are already connected to the world wide web with plans pending to connect 750 more schools to the internet once work on building the dedicated network is completed as part of a World Bank funded project.

Freestyle Wrestling: Armenia's Ruslan Basiev (w/c 120) and Mihran Jaburyan (w/c 55 kg) won silver at the 2010 Takhti Cup freestyle wrestling tournament which ended in Isfahan (Iran) on February 19. Zhirayr Hovhannisyan (w/c 66) and Edgar Yenokyan (w/c 96) won bronze. Armenian freestyle wrestling coach Araik Baghdadyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter that he is satisfied with the performance of his sportsmen.