Armenian President meets with Serbian FM
Today Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan met with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić, according to the presidential press service.
The President welcomed the high-ranking guest and stressed the importance of his visit in terms of continuing Armenian-Serbian political dialogue and promoting the cooperation agenda. Serzh Sargsyan underscored that the age-old relations between Armenia and Serbia have had numerous manifestations. According to the President, the Armenian people gratefully remember the seven Serbian pilots who died in the air crash near Yerevan while coming to the aid of Armenia after the 1988 devastating earthquake. Moreover, every year, on the anniversary of the earthquake, in the same place, a tribute is paid at the memorial dedicated to their memory.
Serzh Sargsyan and Ivan Mrkić stressed the importance of the high-level mutual visits, as a result of which in recent years the bilateral relations and the collaboration in a number of fields have intensified.
The interlocutors expressed willingness to continue making efforts towards maintaining and developing the existing positive dynamics, agreeing that there is a great unrealized potential in the advancement of political, economic, cultural as well as other fields of mutual interest within international organizations.
The importance of mutually beneficial and close cooperation between Armenia and Serbia during the period of Serbia’s chairmanship of the OSCE was also stressed.