Cablegate: Armenia Welcomes Establishment of The

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UNCLAS YEREVAN 001290

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE

DEPT FOR EUR/CACEN, DRL

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL IZ AM
SUBJECT: ARMENIA WELCOMES ESTABLISHMENT OF THE
PROVISIONAL IRAQI GOVERNMENT

REF: STATE 121718

1. (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat
accordingly.

2. (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche June 2. In
comments later that same day, Armenian Foreign
Ministry Spokesman Gamlet Gasparyan noted: " We
welcome the formation of Iraq's interim government,
which will undertake its responsibilities on June
30. We are hopeful that the new government will
succeed in establishing peace and stability in the
country and prepare the groundwork necessary for
democratic elections in 2005. We appreciate the
UN's role in Iraq, and in response to Secretary
General Kofi Annan's appeal, Armenia restates its
readiness to join the international community and
actively participate in Iraq's reconstruction
process, so that there can be peace for Iraq and the
entire region."
ORDWAY

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