President of the Republic

Paris, 12 October 2011

Mr. Minister,

I would like to express my personal gratitude to you for your participation in the preparation and in the course of my State visit, which I had the honor and the pleasure to pay to Armenia on 6-7 October.

I know how much importance you attach to France, where you had served as Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia for a long period of time, and acknowledge your exclusive contribution to further strengthening of friendly relations between our two countries.

The degree of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor conferred on you, can be considered as a vivid evidence of France’s gratitude for your exemplary commitment towards/engagement in ensuring that fraternal friendship between our two countries, as President Sargsyan and myself had attested in Paris and in Yerevan, did not remain idle words.

You can rest assured that mutual trust that you have promoted in relations between France and Armenia, in your capacity of Minister of Foreign Affairs, will undoubtedly serve as a solid basis for realisation of those perspectives that we had outlined at the meetings with President Sargsyan in Paris and then in Yerevan, as well as for implementation of the cooperation agreements reached at your meetings with Ministers accompanying me during the State visit.

I wish Armenia a peaceful and prosperous future, to which it is entitled, and that your activities as the head of the Armenian diplomacy be marked with every success, which it truly deserves.

Please accept, Mr. Minister, the assurances of my high consideration.

Nicolas Sarkozy