Armenian President Armen Sarkissian yesterday, by telephone, congratulated Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko on Belarus Independence Day, which is marked today, July 3.

Sarkissian, according to a statement released by his office, stressed the importance of expanding political, economic and humanitarian cooperation between the two countries and thanked Lukashenko for his assistance regarding the allocation of land in Minsk on which a new Armenian church is to be built.