UKRAINE, ARMENIA DYNAMICALLY DEVELOPING INTERPARLIAMENTARY RELATIONS, SAYS LAVRYNOVYCH

NRCU – Ukrainian Radio
Jan 17 2009
Ukraine

Verkhovna Rada First Deputy Chairman Oleksandr Lavrynovych met with
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Armenia to Ukraine
Armen Khachatryan at his request, according to the press service of
the Ukrainian first deputy speaker.

Lavrynovych said that Ukrainian-Armenian interparliamentary relations
are dynamically developing at the level of national parliaments
and international organizations. He said that "effective cooperation
between public institutes, understanding between political parties and
interaction between entrepreneurs" had become common for Ukraine and
Armenia. During their meeting, the officials discussed a wide range of
bilateral issues, confirmed their countries’ course for integration
with international community and stressed the importance of the
interparliamentary component in this process. The two agreed that the
foreign political course of both countries depends on their national
parliaments as the only legislative bodies. Lavrynovych and Khachatryan
also stressed the need to give a new impetus to the interparliamentary
component of Ukrainian-Armenian relations, particularly at the level
of friendship groups and concerned committees from the two countries’
executive bodies. The sides also exchanged views regarding the need to
use significant potential to step up bilateral cooperation in social
and political, cultural, humanitarian, as well as trade and economic
directions at all levels.