Republican Party of Armenia

On February 11, the Delegation led by the President of the RA National Assembly Galust Sahakyan left for the Nagorno Karabakh Republic on a working visit.

The deputies Artak Zakaryan, Artak Davtyan and Tevan Poghosyan are in the delegation led by the RA NA President.

At the beginning of the working visit the President of the National Assembly and the members of the delegation accompanied with the Vice President of the Artsakh Parliament Vahram Balayan visited Stepanakert Memorial Complex. Galust Sahakyan laid a wreath at the monument eternalizing the memory of the freedom fighters, who died in the Artsakh War and put flowers on the freedom fighters’ tombs.

Afterwards the RA National Assembly President Galust Sahakyan met with the NKR National Assembly President Ashot Ghulyan.

Welcoming the attendees and thanking them for the warm reception, the RA NA President underlined with satisfaction that during the recent years a close relationship had been formed between the state bodies of Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh, and in that context highlighted the role of the inter-parliamentary relations.

Galust Sahakyan has noted that the issue of the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict has been and remains at the centre of attention of the Parliament of the Republic of Armenia. He has added that the MPs always strive to make the Karabakh issue recognizable at the international platforms. Galust Sahakyan has highly assessed the mutually beneficial cooperation shaped between the Standing Committees of the parliaments.

The NKR NA President Ashot Ghulyan expressed satisfaction with the current level of the cooperation between the NKR and the RA legislative bodies and highly appreciated the contribution of the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament.

Afterwards the meeting continued with the participation of the members of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee on Cooperation between the RA NA and the NKR NA and the deputies of the two parliaments.

In the course of the meeting issues of bilateral interest were discussed, which related to the exchange of experience in the legislative activities, mutual visits, the inter-parliamentary relations and budgetary programmes.

The RA NA and the NKR NA Presidents summed up the results of the meeting with the joint press conference.

On the same day the Delegation led by the RA NA President Galust Sahakyan met with the NKR President Bako Sahakyan. During the meeting the sides discussed a number of issues relating to the deepening and development of the ties between the parliaments of the two Armenian Republics.