FRG AMBASSADOR IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
National Assembly of RA
Feb 6 2009
Armenia
On February 5 NA President Mr Hovik Abrahamyan received the Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany
(FRG) to Armenia Mrs Andrea Viktorin at the latter’s request.
Mrs Viktorin handed over the letter of the President of Bundestag
of the Federal Republic of Germany Mr Nobert Lammert to RA NA
President Mr Hovik Abrahamyan on cooperation over the International
Parliamentary Fellowship programme between the two parliaments. The
Ambassador expressed gratitude to the NA President for the willingness
of supporting the Bundestag programme. It was noted that this year
one additional fellowship holder would be provided to Armenia. The
programme was created 20 years ago by Bundestag and by its financing,
the aim of which is to introduce the young specialists of the Eastern
Europe, Russia, USA with the German parliamentary management system.
Noting the high level of the Armenian-German cooperation the President
of RA National Assembly Mr Hovik Abrahamyan highlighted the further
development of the inter-parliamentary ties. He expressed conviction
that Armenia’s participation in theInternational Parliamentary
Fellowship programme would be successfully guided and developed
later. Mr Abrahamyan noted that four fellowship holders have been
in the National Assembly. They got acquainted with the work of the
parliament and later left for Germany to get introduced with the
German parliamentary management system.
During the meeting both sides emphasized the necessity of the
development of cooperation between the German organization for
Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and National Assembly and discussed other
issues of bilateral interest too.
At the end RA NA President Mr Hovik Abrahamyan reaffirmed the
invitation of the President of Bundestag of the Federal Republic of
Germany Mr Nobert Lammert to Armenia.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
