On the occasion of the New Year and Christmas, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I received greeting letters and phone correspondences from state and religious officials.  

Among these visits, His Holiness received Arthur Khandjian­­—Deputy Mayor of the Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Serop Ohanian—Director of the Karagheusian Association in Lebanon, accompanied by Janine Tanielian, and the staff of the Catholicosate.