RA NA SPEAKER MEETS WITH CHAIRMEN OF RF STATE DUMA AND FEDERATION ASSEMBLY IN MOSCOW
Noyan Tapan
Nov 18, 2008
MOSCOW, NOVEMBER 18, NOYAN TAPAN. On November 17, RA National Assembly
Speaker Hovik Abrahamian, who was in RF on an official visit, met
with Chairman of RF State Duma Boris Gryzlov. The State Duma Chairman
greeting the Armenian delegation recorded with satisfaction that the
warm relations between the two countries formed historically become
stronger and stronger.
He expressed the hope that henceforth the interparliamentary relations
of the two countries will develop for even more attaching importance
to cooperation between the two countries in the legislative sphere.
H. Abrahamian, in his turn, highly evaluated Russia’s role in the
work done in the direction of solving the Nagorno Karabakh conflict
attaching importance to the latest meeting of the Presidents of
Armenia and Azerbaijan organized with the mediation and efforts of
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow and according to the
signed document, the readiness to solve the problem peacefully.
According to the report provided to Noyan Tapan by the RA NA
Speaker’s Spokesperson, issues related to relaunching of the
enterprises belonging to Russia by the Property for Debt agreement,
organization of proper events to prevent persecutions and murders
of citizens of Armenia on ethnic ground in Russia, increasing the
commodity circulation between the two countries, work done to reduce
the influence of the world financial crisis, expansion of regional
cooperation, and coordinated work of the parliaments at international
structures were discussed during the meeting.
At the end of the meeting they signed a Memorandum, which attached
importance to further development of traditional friendship and
cooperation betwen the two countries and peoples, more efficient
control by the parliament over the fulfillment of the agreements
and contracts signed, consistent work of the interparliamentary
commission, exchange of experience of parliamentary structures,
efficient cooperation within the framework of international events.
The same day the RA NA Speaker met with Chairman of RF Federation
Assembly Sergei Mironov.
During the meeting the interlocutors touched upon regional cooperation,
increasing the commodity circulation volume between the two countries,
Nagorno Karabakh settlement, development of interparliamentary
contacts, events to be organized on December 7 in Gyumri on the
occasion of the 20th anniversary of Spitak earthquake.
H. Abrahamian said that more than 10 years have passed since the
signing of the interparliamentary agreement, and as many geopolitical
and economic changes have happened in the world, a necessity of new
approaches and clarifications has emerged. S. Mironov accepted the
proposal to sign a new agreement.
The same day H. Abrahamian received CSTO Secretary General Sergei
Bordyuzha at the Embassy of Armenia in Russia and had a tete-a-tete
talk with him.
The delegation led by the RA National Assembly Speaker returned to
Yerevan on November 18.