Republican Party of Armenia

 On August 30 the RA NA Speaker Galust Sahakyan received the delegation of the Friendship Group of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania with Artsakh led by the Head of the Group Dalia Kuodytė. The RA NA Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov, the Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations Artak Zakaryan also attended the meeting.

Welcoming the members of the delegation in the parliament, the RA NA Speaker noted with satisfaction that during recent years a progress had been recorded in the development of the relations between the two countries. Touching upon the Armenian-Lithuanian cooperation, Galust Sahakyan has highlighted the parliamentary relations and has mentioned that the parliamentary cooperation has its unique place in the rapprochement of the bilateral relations.

The RA NA Speaker noted with satisfaction that a big Parliamentary Friendship Group had been formed in the Lithuanian Parliament, and the Armenia-Lithuania Friendship Group had permanently functioned in the RA NA, and now its head is the RA NA Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov.

Referring to the establishment of the Parliamentary Friendship Group with the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the Head of the Parliament opined that with the activities of the Friendship Group the traditional ties between the two peoples would be strengthened, and the atmosphere that had been characteristic to the Armenian-Lithuanian relations during peoples’ movements launched in the period of national revival.

The NA Speaker invited the members of the delegation to the international conference entitled “Parliamentarians against Genocide” to be held in Yerevan in 2015.

Thanking for the warm reception the Head of the delegation Dalia Kuodytė touched upon the long friendship between the two nations and highlighted the development and deepening of the Armenian-Lithuanian inter-parliamentary relations.

At the end of the meeting the RA NA Speaker Galust Sahakyan awarded Dalia Kuodytė the RA NA Medal of Honour, and the journalist Rimvidas Valataka - the RA NA Diploma for the significant contribution in deepening and expanding the inter-state cooperation.