New York, USA – The Governments of the Republics of Liberia and Armenia have established diplomatic relations.
“Guided by the principles and purposes enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, have decided to establish diplomatic relations in accordance with the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of the 18th of April 1961, as of the signing of this Protocol,” the Agreement said.
According to a dispatch from New York, the Protocol was signed on the margins of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly currently taking place in New York on Friday, September 22, 2017.
Liberia’s Foreign Minister, Ms. Marjon Kamara and the Armenian Foreign Minister, Mr. Edward Nalbandian, signed for their respective governments.
The two countries have agreed to promote mutual understanding and strengthen friendship and cooperation between them.
Armenia, situated along the route of the Great Silk Road, is a landlocked country of rugged mountains and extinct volcanoes, located in the southern Caucasus, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. It is the smallest of the former Soviet republics, bounded by Georgia on the north, Azerbaijan on the east, Iran on the South, and Turkey on the west.
Armenia was a regional empire with a rich culture in the years leading up to the 1st Century CE, at one period controlling all the land between the Black and Caspian Seas.
In 301, Armenia was the first state to formally adopt Christianity as its official state religion, twelve years before Rome. It also changed between various dynasties.
But after Parthian (Iranian), Roman, Arab, Mongol and Persian occupation, Armenia had been substantially weakened. In 1454, the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Persia divided Armenia among themselves.
With an area of 29,743 km, Armenia, whose capital and largest city is Yerevan, has a population of three (3) million people.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Kamara continues with bilateral and side meetings at the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly.