The paper says it has learned from sources that President of the European Council Herman van Rompuy was supposed to be accompanied by his wife in the course of his visit to the South Caucasus region.

But as it turned out later, he came to Yerevan alone. He arrived late as the aircraft on which he was to travel reportedly had technical problems.

Mrs. Van Rompuy was reported at the last moment to have cancelled her trip because of health problems. She was scheduled to attend a special event in Yerevan together with Armenia’s first lady, Rita Sargsyan, says the paper, adding that the program agenda was of political nature, not of cultural or social.

But citing its sources, the paper claims that the high-ranking European official’s spouse had her own reason for cancelling the trip. She reportedly has problems with the [EU] member-states, the situation being serious to such an extent that some of them even decided to create problems for her via their air companies. 

The European official was in Yerevan on Wednesday morning. As early as in the afternoon, he already left for Georgia.