YEREVAN. – President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, on Monday issued a message of condolences to President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, on the passing of former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
“Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will remain in the memory of the Armenian people as the neighboring country’s president, during whose tenure the first state relations between newly independent Armenia and Iran were established, giving new impetus to age-old friendly relations of our two peoples.
“Today, we continue expanding and deepening our cooperation on the solid foundation that was established in those years,” reads the Armenian President’s message of condolence.