ARMENIA WELCOMES ESTABLISHMENT OF THE

UNCLAS YEREVAN 001290 SIPDIS SENSITIVE DEPT FOR EUR/CACEN, DRL E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL IZ AM SUBJECT: ARMENIA WELCOMES ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PROVISIONAL IRAQI GOVERNMENT REF: STATE 121718 ¶1. (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ¶2. (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche June 2. In comments later that same day, Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gamlet Gasparyan noted: " We welcome the formation of Iraq's interim government, which will undertake its responsibilities on June ¶30. We are hopeful that the new government will succeed in establishing peace and stability in the country and prepare the groundwork necessary for democratic elections in 2005. We appreciate the UN's role in Iraq, and in response to Secretary General Kofi Annan's appeal, Armenia restates its readiness to join the international community and actively participate in Iraq's reconstruction process, so that there can be peace for Iraq and the entire region." ORDWAY