Bako Sahakyan visits city of Cologne

On 7 November Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan arrived with a working visit to the city of Cologne in Germany. On the same day the Head of the State met heads of the city’s Armenian organizations and business circles to discuss issues related to carrying out different projects in the NKR.

The President thereafter visited residency of the German Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church and held a meeting with primate of the see Archbishop Garegin Pektchean and later on met representatives of the Cologne Armenian community.

The President introduced internal life of Artsakh, its foreign policy, issues the state face an answered questions raised by the attendees.

Bako Sahakyan noted that Armenians in Germany posses a great potential that creates promising perspectives for cooperation. Within this context the President put a special emphasis on role of the Cologne Armenian Diaspora, which is the biggest and best organized communities in Germany that unites the entire German Armenians.

Head of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia in the Federal Republic of Germany Armen Martirosyan, head of the central information department of the office of the NKR President David Babayan, NKR permanent representative to Germany Haroutyun Grigoryan partook at the meetings, Central Information Department of the Office of the Artsakh Republic.