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17:59, 8 April, 2013YEREVAN, APRIL 8, ARMENPRESS: The only female Prime Minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher in June 1990 paid her first and only visit to Leninakan (Gyumri), Armenia in frames of her visit to the Soviet Union. The coverage of the visit of the “Iron Lady” to Leninakan was assured by “Armenpress” agency with a number of photos showing the details of “Iron Lady’s” visit.
In Gyumri airport British Prime Minister was received by First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia Vladimir Movsisyan, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR V. S. Margaryants and Foreign Minister of Armenian SSR A.A. Mkrtchyan.
“Children gifted flowers to the respected guest; girls in traditional Armenian dresses treated her with salt and bread. Afterwards Margaret Thatcher, leadership and high rank officials of Armenia SSR got into the cars,” Armenpress wrote in 1990.
Thatcher participated in the opening ceremony of Byron School in Gyumri, which was built and gifted by British side after 1988 earthquake.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a towering figure in postwar British and world politics and the only woman to become British prime minister, died at the age of 87 on April 8. Thatcher's funeral will be at St. Paul's Cathedral, with full military honors, followed by a private cremation.
Thatcher served from 1975 to 1990 as leader of the Conservative Party. She was called the "Iron Lady" for her personal and political toughness. She retired from public life after a stroke in 2002 and suffered several strokes after that.
She made few public appearances in her final months, missing a reception marking her 85th birthday hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron in October 2010. She also skipped the July 2011 unveiling of a statue honoring her old friend Ronald Reagan in London.
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