YEREVAN, JUNE 29, NOYAN TAPAN. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili arrived in Armenia on a two-day official visit with his wife, Sandra Rulovs on June 24. High-ranking guest's solemn meeting ceremony at RA President's residence was followed by Presidents Serzh Sargsyan's and Mikheil Saakashvili's tete-a-tete talk, after which official delegations' meeting in an enlarged staff took place. Mentioning that few peoples in the world can be proud of such long-lasting and good-neighborly relations like relations between Armenian and Georgian peoples, S. Sargsyan said: "We are obliged to multiply what we inherited from our ancestors." S. Sargsyan and M. Saakashvili said that frequent meetings and negotiations help to quickly clarify issues of bilateral interest and ways of their solution. As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA President's Press Office, issues related to cargo transportations through the territory of Georgia, bilateral communication, tourism development, as well as educational-cultural cooperation were discussed during the negotiations. The process of Armenian-Georgian border's demarcation was also touched upon. For making active the contacts between the Armenian and Georgian peoples S. Sargsyan attached importance to the necessity of organizing joint events in various spheres and making them traditional. He, in particular, suggested holding annual school olympiads in various subjects, as well as sports contests. They arranged to hold the first school olympiad this autumn. At the end of the meeting S. Sargsyan awarded Order of Honor to Mikheil Saakashvili, which is the highest state award of Armenia given to foreign citizens and which the Georgian President was awarded by the RA President's June 24 decree, for his activity aimed at strengthening the Armenian-Georgian centuries-old friendship, deepening cooperation between Armenia and Georgia.

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