HOVIK ABRAHAMYAN: "THE ALLIED RELATIONS WITH THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION WILL BE ONE OF THE PRIOR DIRECTIONS OF ARMENIA’S FOREIGN POLICY"
National Assembly
Nov 6 2009
Armenia
On November 5 President of the National Assembly Mr. Hovik Abrahamyan
received Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian
Federation to Armenia Mr. Vyacheslav Kovalenko.
Welcoming the guest the President of the National Assembly expressed
hope that thanks to Ambassador Kovalenko’s work it would be possible
to raise the cooperation of the two countries to a new higher level.
Mr. Abrahamyan noted that the allied relations of the Republic of
Armenia and the Russian Federation will be one of the prior directions
of Armenia’s foreign policy. In that context he also highlighted the
high level of the political contacts between the two countries, the
formed wide legal-contractual field, mutually beneficial cooperation
in trade-economic, humanitarian, military-technical and other spheres.
The interlocutors highlighted the activity of the inter-governmental
commission and inter-parliamentary committee on cooperation. They
agreed that those committees are important instruments of bilateral
cooperation, and its potential should be fully used for the benefit
of the prosperity of the peoples of Armenia and Russia.
During the meeting the sides also discussed a wide scope of issues
of regional security.