TIGRAN TOROSIAN: ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT IS READY FOR CLOSE AND COOPERATED WORK WITH CSTO

NOYAN TAPAN

JU LY 23

RA National Assembly Speaker Tigran Torosian receiving Collective
Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary General Nikolay
Bordyuzha on July 22 said that though the occasion for the meeting is
the Rubezh-2008 military training being held in Armenia, there are
many issues of mutual interest and those regarding the work of CSTO
Parliamentary Assembly to discuss. He attached importance to activity
of CSTO Parliamentary Assembly touching upon development prospects,
which, having clear-cut ideas and principles in their basis, outline
new and certain directions for cooperation. The NA Speaker also said
that the Armenian parliament has already ratified all agreements
regarding CSTO work and is ready fir further close and cooperated work.

Touching upon the work of CSTO PA, N. Bordyuzha attached importance
to deepening cooperation, within the framework of which he considered
it efficient to organize meetings of parliament speakers behind closed
doors, as well as meetings of heads of various countries’ parliamentary
delegations at international structures to get acquainted with each
other’s views.

Mentioning that Armenia assumes chairmanship in CSTO from September 5,
he said he would like the Armenian parliament to be also involved in
these processes.

As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA NA Public Relations Department,
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Torosian welcomed the practical steps proposed to raise CSTO
Parliamentary Assembly’s activity efficiency and expressed readiness
to assist their implementation. He attached importance to putting
forward concrete problems and establishment of solutions’ mechanisms,
to parliament’s role and significance in these processes.