The Lebanese President, Emile Lahoud, has arrived in Armenia for a two-day official visit. Mr Lahoud is due to have talks with President Robert Kocharian and the Prime Minister, Andrankik Markarian, as well as the leader of the Armenian Apostolic church, the Catholicos Karekin II. Lebanon is home to a community of some 200,000 people of Armenian descent. It is also one of the few countries which has officially described the killings of several thousand Armenians in Turkey under Ottoman rule as genocide. A member of the Organisation of Islamic Conference, Lebanon has also consistently abstained in votes held to condemn Armenia in its conflict with Azerbaijan over the predominantly Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. (BBC)