The Armenian President received Rafayel Marttinet

The Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has received the chairman of the International Federation of Wrestling Rafayel Marttinet. As the Press Office of the RA President informs S. Sargsyan assured that his visit will serve a new stimuli to develop the cooperation.

“The wrestling in Armenia is traditionally respected and succeeded type of sport, which today also gets a lot of attention though here as in all other cases too we would like to have much better results”, - told the head of the country. “That is the reason why our national Olympic committee and the Ministry of Sport try to concentrate their attention on this sport. We whish that much more children to get involved in wrestling, we make the conditions better, we try to organize competitions in Armenia as these are the ways that will bring to better results.”

They have discussed the possibilities of passing the World Greek-Roman wrestling tournament of 2010 in Armenia. The President of Armenian has mentioned that our country is interested in organizing such high quality tournaments.

“It will be a fest for the Armenian wrestling funs and the young sportsmen as they will have that wish to see many prominent sportsmen, and watch their performances”, - Serzh Sargsyan mentioned.