CHINA, ARMENIA SIGN AGREEMENT TO FURTHER INTER-PARLIAMENT COOPERATION

Trend News Agency
Dec 15 2008
Azerbaijan

China and Armenia signed a memorandum of understanding here on
Monday on exchange and cooperation between the two parliaments,
reported Xinhua.

"The signing of the memo marks a new era for the relationship between
the two parliaments", Chinese top legislator Wu Bangguo said when
witnessing the signing ceremony with visiting chairman of the Armenian
National Assembly Ovik Abramyan, according to a press release from
the news office of the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s
Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature.

In his meeting with Abramyan, Wu, Chairman of NPC Standing Committee,
highlighted the roles that the two parliaments play in promoting
Sino-Armenian relations as "highly important", expressing his hope
that the two sides could maintain the exchange at various levels and
cement cooperation in fields such as legislation and legal supervision.

China highly values its ties with Armenia, Wu told Abramyan, saying
that the country is willing to promote relations with Armenia to
a higher level based on the principles of mutual respect, equality
and reciprocity.

Echoing Wu’s views on the ties between the two nations and the two
parliaments, Abramyan said Armenia was committed to developing its ties
with China especially in the fields of trade, science and technology,
and education.

The Armenian National Assembly would regard the signing of the
agreement memo as an opportunity to boost friendly exchange and
pragmatic cooperation and inject new vigor into relations, said
Abramyan.

He said that Armenia would continue to adhere to the one-China policy.