YEREVAN. – Zhoghovurd daily ascertained from well-informed sources that something interesting transpired during the recent dinner banquet attended by observers from the European People’s Party and Armenian ruling coalition parties’ Government members, the daily writes. 

“Armenia’s Finance Minister Vache Gabrielyan, who speaks English fluently, was designated the [banquet’s] toastmaster, and he made toasts to several European counties, one after the other. The attendees were holding their breath until our country’s [Armenia] turn would come, but the Minister did not note our country.  

To the paper’s query as to why the Minister did not make a toast to Armenia, the Ministry’s Press Service responded: ‘Your information does not correspond to the reality.’ Our sources, however, continue to claim that the toastmaster did not make a toast to Armenia,” Zhoghovurd writes.