Republican Party of Armenia

 On September 11 the Head of Armenia-France Friendship Group of the National Assembly Ara Babloyan and the members of the Group met with the members of France-Armenia Friendship Group Alain Neri, Jean Bizet, Jean-Marc Jermain and Jacques Remilier.

Welcoming the guests, the Head of Armenia-France Friendship Group of the National Assembly Ara Babloyan thanked them for active cooperation, noticing that it is not a secret that France is Armenia’s friendly country. The Head of the Friendship Group welcomed their visit to Artsakh and highlighted the current level of the relations existing between the two countries.

Alain Neri thanked the Friendship Group for the hospitality and noted that they have been in Artsakh for three days and returned impressed from there.

Alain Neri underscored that they had visited the frontline soldiers, who fulfill their duty towards the Motherland. “The system of values that France and Armenia have, should be more developed and called on,” Neri noticed. The Deputy Chairman of France-Armenia Friendship Group Jermain noticed that their visit to Artsakh had certain political message connected with the frontier cases of the recent period. According to Jermain, the goal of their visit is also to address the world that in Artsakh there is only fighting for values – democracy and protection of human rights.

He also noted that we should more activate the economic cooperation between the two countries.

The members of the NA Armenia-France Friendship Group Khachatur Kokobelyan, Margarit Yesayan, Karine Atshemyan, Shushan Petrosyan also welcomed the guests’ visit, highlighting the development of inter-parliamentary diplomacy. Talking about the frontier cases of the recent period, the deputies thanked them for the position of France, especially in clarifying the circumstances of the RA civilian Karen Petrosyan’s death.

The sides once again stressed the development of cooperation between the friendly countries.