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President Starts Protocol PR Tour of Diaspora

[ 2009/10/01 | 18:09 ] important politics

The presidential press service has announced that President Sargsyan left today on his whirlwind public relations tour of the diaspora in an effort to garner public support for the recently signed Armenian-Turkish protocols.

Accompanying President Sargsyan on his tour is Gagik Harutyunyan, President of the RoA Constitutional Court; Hranush Hakobyan, Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Arkady Ghukasyan, special presidential envoy.

President Sargsyan’s first stop will be Paris where he will meet with representatives of the European Armenian community on October 2. The president will then fly to New York, Los Angeles and Beirut. He will end his publicity tour in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.

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