Hearing of the disaster, Mother Teresa arrived in Armenia on December 18.
The Spitak earthquake shook Armenia in December 1988. All mass media, reporters and photojournalists used their full potential to provide fresh information from the incident place as soon as possible.
Hearing of the disaster, Mother Teresa arrived in Armenia on December 18. In Yerevan she met with the Chairman of the Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and expressed her deep condolences for the tragedy.
On December 20, before leaving Yerevan, Mother Teresa visited Etchmiadzin and expressed her condolences to Catholicos Vazgen I.
Photographer Martin Shahbazyan remembers that His Holiness seldom spoke a foreign language with his guests: thus he honored only very respectable people: Mother Teresa was exclusion, too.
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