RA NA PRESIDENT RECEIVES AMBASSADOR OF GERMANY TO ARMENIA
National Assembly
Nov 11 2009
Armenia
On November 11 President of the National Assembly Mr. Hovik Abrahamyan
received the newly appointed Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Ambassador of Germany to Armenia Mr. Hans-Jochen Schmidt.
Welcoming the guest RA NA President congratulated him on the occasion
of assuming that post and expressed hope that Ambassador Mr. Schmidt
would do his best in developing the Armenian-German cooperation. Mr.
Abrahamyan noted that the bilateral relations have already been on
firm bases and highly assessed the existing trade-economic, political
and cultural contacts, as well as the projects being implemented in
Armenia by German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) enterprise.
During the meeting the interlocutors agreed that it was necessary
to more develop the inter-parliamentary cooperation and use all the
opportunities given by parliamentary diplomacy. Ambassador Mr. Schmidt
conveyed the greetings of Bundestag President to RA NA President.
Sending his greetings to his German counterpart Mr. Abrahamyan noted
that the Armenian side was ready to host on an official visit in
Yerevan the President of the German Parliament.
During the talk the sides also discussed the procedure of normalizing
the Armenian-Turkish relations without preconditions, paying special
attention to the role of the parliaments of two neigbouring countries.