ARMENIAN AND HUNGARIAN FOREIGN AFFAIR MINISTERS INDICATED WAYS OF DEVELOPING THE BILATERAL COOPERATION

ARMENPRESS
July 10, 2009

YEREVAN, JULY 10, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Foreign Affairs Minister Edward
Nalbandyan paid on July 9 a short-term visit to Budapest. The press
service of the Foreign Affairs Ministry told Armenpress that as soon
as Edward Nalbandyan arrived in the capital of Hungary, he met with
his counterpart Peter Balash.

The agenda of the meeting of Armenian and Hungarian Ministers for
Foreign Affairs included a wide circle of issues on the preparation
works of the Armenian President’s official visit to Hungary in
November, the bilateral cooperation, Armenia-European Union relations,
regional and international issues.

Highly assessing the recent tendencies of development of
Armenian-Hungarian relations, Ministers E. Nalbandyan and P. Balash
indicated the necessity of activation of high level mutual visits and
political dialogue as a guarantee of development of a multilateral
cooperation.

The interlocutors referred to the ways of deepening the
trade-economical interaction. In this context the Armenian Minister
for Foreign Affairs attached importance to the formation of a relevant
legal-agreement field and the conduction of business forums. The
Ministers agreed to activate the preparation of the contracts of
economic sphere to be signed during the President’s his visit to
Hungary.

During the negotiations different directions of Armenia-European
Union cooperation, as well as the steps to be undertaken towards
activating the bilateral cooperation within the frames of the European
neighborhood policy and the Eastern Partnership project have been in
details discussed.

The head of the Armenian Foreign Political Department presented the
latest developments in the Karabakh issue negotiation to the Hungarian
Foreign Affairs Minster.

On E. Nalbandyan’s request P. Balash presented the processes running
in the European Union after the elections of the European Parliament,
as well as the process of the formation of the European Commission.

The Armenian and Hungarian Ministers of Foreign Affairs also referred
to the process of Karabakh conflict regulation.

The meeting of Foreign Ministers was followed by a joint press
conference, then E. Nalbandyan had an interview with the Hungarian
TV. In Budapest E. Nalbandian accompanied with the representatives
of Hungarian-Armenian community, put flowers on the memorial of the
victims of Armenian Genocide.

The same day the Armenian Minister for Foreign Affairs left for
Bucharest.