RA NA CHAIRMAN MEETS IN SAINT PETERSBURG WITH PACE VICE CHAIRMAN,
CHAIRMAN OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF BELARUS’ PARLIAMENT AND WITH
SERGEI MIRONOV

SAINT PETERSBURG, December 4 (Noyan Tapan). Armenia is actively
working to honor its commitments towards the Council of Europe and the
honoring of the commitments will be completed in 2005 by the
constitutional reforms. The RA National Assembly Chairman Artur
Baghdasarian told this to the PACE Vice Chairman Ionas Chekuolis
during the December 3 meeting in Saint Petersburg. The sides also
discussed the issue of organizing discussions on the regional problems
under the aegis of PACE, issues of developing the European
integration, as well as the issues of developing relations between
Armenia and the Baltic states. I. Chekuolis qualified PACE – RA NA
relations as model ones in terms of honoring the commitments. It was
noted that increasing the cooperation in all formats will promote
Armenia’s Eurointegration, while bringing the Armenian legislation
with the CE standards was considered an important problem whose
solution may be helped by the Baltic states that express readiness to
assist. According to the NA PR Department, Artur Baghdasarian also had
a meeting with Vladimir Konopliov, Chairman of the House of
Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of
Belarus. The issues of strengthening the Armenian-Belarusian
interparliamentary relations were discussed. The interparliamentary
cooperation commission’s work was pointed out as important: Konopliov
noted that starting from mid December the commission will be formed in
the newly elected parliament, and a co-chairman will be appointed at
the level of the parliament’s vice chairman. The sides stressed the
importance of the implementation of the agreement on cooperation,
which was signed in February in Minsk, as well the cooperation in
international structures. The RA NA Chairman met with Chairman of the
Federation Council of the RF Federal Assembly Sergei Mironov. The
sides discussed the issues related to development of the inter-state
relations, attached importance to the interparliamentary cooperation.