Monday, 13 October 2008
On a working visit to Washington, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan attended the World Bank/IMF Annual Meeting's opening ceremony. Widely commented on by US and international experts, as well as by mass media for 3 weeks now, the global financial crisis was the highlight of the day.
According to IMF Executive Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the financial crisis should not lead to reduced assistance for developing countries. This standpoint aroused a lot of controversy among the delegations in attendance of the event.
Following the ceremony, the Prime Minister-led delegation called at Armenia's embassy in Washington where they met with Armenian Assembly of America and USAPAC leadership. In the words of USAPAC director Ross Vartian, founded only two years ago and acting in parallel to US-based Armenian lobbying organizations, the USAPAC has grown into one of key Armenian associations of the United States. Armenia-Diaspora linkages and Armenian-Turkish relations, as well as the global financial turmoil were discussed at the meeting.
Later on Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan met with the representatives of the Armenian community of the United States.
