President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, on Thursday hailed the Lebanese and Armenian peoples' ties as deeply rooted in history, saying the Armenians in Lebanon constitute an inseparable part of the Lebanese people.
"Armenians in Lebanon are not a community, but rather an inseparable part of the Lebanese people," President Aoun said during the official dinner banquet hosted by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in his honor during his official visit to Armenia.
The dinner banquet was attended by the Armenian House Speaker and Prime Minister, in addition to scores of Armenian officials and diplomatic figures.
Aoun heaped praise on the positive role played by the Armenians in Lebanon notably in its economic, cultural and political horizons, saying the combination of cultures is always a source of wealth for Lebanon's pluralistic society.
Aoun also stressed that failure to acknowledge past massacres has prompted the perpetration of massacres of the present.
President Sargsyan, for his part, lauded the wide-ranging bilateral ties between Lebanon and Armenia, and deemed such relations as all-inclusive and genuinely friendly.
"The bonds of Armenian-Lebanese friendship stretch between Antelias and Burj Hammoud and Anjar, far-reaching to the heart of the capital Yerevan," Sargsyan said, expressing gratitude to the brotherly Lebanon for standing by Armenia in the tragic moments of its history and embracing the sons of the Armenian nation who survived the genocide.
In the wake of the dinner banquet, President Aoun moved to Yerevan's Zvartnots Airport, winding up his official visit to Armenia.
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