Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus Kirill I on July 17 conveyed condolences to the Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II for July 15 air crash disaster.

Primate of the Russian Church also presented condolences to Iranian and Armenian Presidents — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Serzh Sargsyan.

“I am confident that you and the authorities make currently every effort to provide the financial and psychological support to the victims’ families”, the message to Ahmadinejad says.

In the letter to Serzh Sargsyan, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus empahzied that “presently it is vitally important to show concern and mercy for families of victims to help them firmly and endurably overcome the sufferings, to heal the bereavement”.