Republican Party of Armenia

On December 5 the RA NA President Hovik Abrahamyan received the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic to the RA Ioannis Taghis.

Welcoming the Ambassador the President of the parliament congratulated him on assuming the post and expressed conviction that due to his activity the Armenian-Greek bilateral relations would be strengthened. In his word, the traditional friendly relations established between Armenia and Greece, serve as an important pledge for further development and deepening of cooperation in different spheres. Hovik Abrahamyan has noted that Armenia highlights the multi-lateral development of the relations with Greece and has documented with satisfaction that the political relations with Greece are at high level. In this context he highly assessed the deepening of Armenian-Greek inter-parliamentary cooperation, mutual visits, the activity of the friendship groups. The NA President reaffirmed his invitation of the official visit of the President of the Greek Parliament to Armenia.

Thanking for reception the Ambassador noted that Armenia and Greece were traditional friendly countries and the friendship of the two peoples comes from old centuries. The Ambassador underlined that during his tenure he would do his best to more deepen and develop the Armenian-Greek relations. Mr Taghis also highlighted the further development of inter-parliamentary cooperation, which, in his word, would greatly promote the reinforcement of inter-state relations.

In the course of the meeting other issues of bilateral interest were also discussed.