July 16, 2009 - 17:52 AMT
Ambassadors accredited to Armenia expressed their condolences
Ambassadors accredited to Armenia visited RA Foreign Ministry to express their condolences to the families of those killed at Tu-154 jet crash.

Iranian Ambassador to Armenia Seyed Ali Saghaeyan expressed his condolences to the families of Iranians and Armenians killed at plane crash and thanked Armenian authorities for support extended to Iranian people.

He also informed that on July 17, all those wishing to condole with the families of catastrophe victims can leave their entries in a Book of condolences at Iranian Embassy in Armenia.

Ambassadors of Iran, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Lebanon, Kazakhstan ad well as UN Resident Coordinator Consuelo Vidal left their signatures in the Book of condolences.

On June 15, the Caspian Airlines Russian made Tupolev jet was heading from Tehran to the Armenian capital Yerevan when it crashed at 11:33 am local time (0803GMT), 16 minutes after take-off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport. All the 168 passengers on board have been killed, 35 of them with Armenian family names.

July 16 was announced a mourning day in Armenia.