Armenian Ambassador Attends Counterterrorism Conference at Virginia State University

On November 12, 2004, Armenian Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. Arman Kirakossian attended a conference on Terrorism and Threat Assessment: The United States of America - The Newly Independent States’ Partnership in the War Against Terrorism, Democracy-Building and Market Reforms. The international conference was organized by the Virginia State University and moderated by Dr. Ceslav Ciobanu of VSU, formerly Moldova’s Ambassador to the U.S.

Ambassadors from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Moldova, as well as officials from USAID, U.S. Army, CIA, and experts from the Virginia State University, University of Virginia, James Madison University, Virginia Commonwealth University participated in the conference and delivered remarks. In his presentation, Armenian Ambassador Arman Kirakossian noted Armenia’s substantial contributions to the war against terrorism and described the main directions of Armenia’s foreign policy in view of post-9/11 geopolitical environment. Ambassador Kirakossian also presented Armenia’s political and economic progress since independence and the current state of U.S.-Armenian relations.