Republican Party of Armenia

 President Serzh Sargsyan continues to pay a state visit to the Czech Republic. Today in the morning, the President of Armenia held a meeting with Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies of Czech Republic, Jan Hamáček.

At first, President Serzh Sargsyan congratulated Jan Hamáček on the occasion of being elected as a Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies.

During the meeting, the interlocutors stressed the importance of parliamentary diplomacy role in Armenian-Czech cooperation development and ties strengthening. They expressed willingness to develop cooperation and relations on the basis of mutual confidence and benefit.

President Serzh Sargsyan underlined that inter parliamentary relations of the two countries increased significantly in recent years, exchange visits of parliamentarians were activated which, according to the President, creates good prerequisites to deepen mutual understanding of actual issues referred to the Armenia and Czech Republics mutual benefit, also to develop cooperation in international parliamentary formats. President Serzh Sargsyan underlined that he will be pleased to host the Leadership of Czech Parliament in Armenia noting that President of the National Assembly paid a visit to the Czech Republic in 2012.

The President of Armenia and Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies of Czech Republic agreed that friendly exchange visits should be encouraged as inter parliamentary cooperation is the platform where each other’s concerns and questions should be heard this way promoting the two countries and people’s friendship strengthening. In this context, Jan Hamáček noted with satisfaction that after the last parliamentary elections, a large number of Armenian-Czech friendship group was formed in short period of time which, in his convincement, is a good basis for mutual efficient work.

During the meeting, the interlocutors spoke about regional problems, NKR conflict settlement process, Armenia-Turkey relations and other questions of mutual interest.

Today, President Serzh Sargsyan visited one of the most significant structures of 20th century for Czechoslovakia and Czech statehood, The National Monument in Vítkov. The President of Armenia paid tribute to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.