Republican Party of Armenia

 On August 30 the Chairman of the RA NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations Artak Zakaryan and the members of the Committee met with 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.

Welcoming the guests, Artak Zakaryan thanked the Lithuanian parliamentarians for the initiative of creating a Friendship Group with the Artsakh Parliament. He highlighted the activities of the Armenian-Lithuanian Friendship Group in the Seimas of Lithuania. Touching upon the Nagorno Karabakh issue, Mr Zakaryan has noted that the NK problem is one of the most important issues on the RA political agenda, and Armenia sees the settlement of the problem only through peaceful means, within the framework of the negotiations going on in the format of the OSCE Minsk Group. The Committee Chairman referred to the events to be organized in Yerevan ahead of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide in April 2015 and expressed hope that the Lithuanian MPs will be at the Armenian people’s side during those days.

The Committee Chairman Artak Zakaryan deemed necessary the activation of the ties between similar committees of the parliaments of the two countries with respect to the exchange of experience and cooperation of the legislative activities.

In the course of the meeting the sides also discussed issues regarding the inter-parliamentary cooperation, emphasized Armenia-Lithuania partnership in different parliamentary structures and the close work between the parliamentary friendship groups.