As he concluded his working visit to Georgia, Foreign Minister returned to Armenia from Batumi. His return trip included stops in Akhaltskha and Akhalkalak.

In Akhaltskha, he met with officials of the Samtskhe-Javakheti region, as well as representatives of the Armenian community and the youth.

The Minister’s next stop was Akhalkalak. There, Minister Oskanian visited the Holy Cross Church, met with Armenian community representatives and Georgian Parliamentarians of Armenian origin who represent the region.

During the meetings, the Armenian Foreign Minister spoke in detail about Armenia’s foreign policy priorities, Armenian-Georgian relations and forthcoming bilateral projects. He also responded to questions.

That same afternoon, on his way to Yerevan, the Minister stopped in Lori to meet with more than a dozen members of Georgia’s diplomatic corps who were visiting Armenia’s Lori region, at the invitation of Armenia’s Ambassador to Georgia, Hrach Silvanian. The ambassadors, accompanied by Lori’s regional governor Aram Kocharian, the primates of the Gugarats and Georgian Dioceses of the Armenian Apostolic Church, as well as  representatives of the Armenian Foreign Ministry and the Mother See of Etchmiadzin, visited the monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin, the home-museum of Anastas and Artem Mikoyans in Sanahin and the copper-molybdenum factory of Alaverdi. The visit served to better familiarize the diplomats  about the life, traditions, culture and economy of Armenia’s regions bordering Georgia.