RA NA VICE SPEAKER AREVIK PETROSYAN RECEIVES THE ARMENIAN MEMBER OF THE SWEDISH PARLIAMENT ESABELLE DINGIZIAN

National Assembly of RA
March 30 2010
Armenia

On March 29 RA National Assembly Speaker Arevik Petrosyan received
the Armenian deputy of the Swedish Parliament Esabelle Dingizian.

Welcoming the guest Mrs. Petrosyan expressed her satisfaction and
gratitude in connection with the adoption and condemnation of the
resolution of the Armenian Genocide, perpetrated by the Ottoman Turkey
in 1915 in the Swedish Parliament, first of all, assessing it as a big
step aimed at condemning the crimes in the world and excluding them.

RA NA Vice Speaker touched upon the Armenian-Swedish bilateral and
multi-lateral relations, emphasized the necessity of the development
of the inter-parliamentary relations.

Mrs. Dingizian expressed her gratitude for the warm reception. She also
highlighted the Armenian-Swedish relations and ensured that within her
possibilities she would take necessary steps to form Armenian-Swedish
Parliamentary Friendship Group in the Swedish Parliament and develop
inter-parliamentary relations.

At the guest’s request Mrs. Petrosyan presented the structure, the
activities, the procedure of the legislative reforms, the state of
the involvement of the political forces of the National Assembly of
the Republic of Armenia, the expanded powers of the National Assembly,
the issues of the legislative regulation of the gender issues and the
developments. Mrs. Petrosyan noted that it was envisaged to form a
consultative body on gender issues adjunct to RA National Assembly
Speaker, which would study the gender issues coordinated and in a
comprehensive way, discuss the initiatives of the parliamentarians
representing different political forces, the gender examination of
the legislation, the analysis, etc.

Mrs. Dingizian in her turn presented the existing solutions and
mechanisms in the Swedish Parliament on gender issues.

During the meeting the sides noted that the gender issues are
emphasized in the whole world, every country in this sphere has
special problems and necessity of solving them in a special way. They
highlighted the active cooperation of the parliaments in the sphere
of equal opportunities policy.

The sides expressed hope that after the establishment of the Council
on Gender Issues in RA National Assembly the cooperation of similar
structures of the parliaments of two countries would be active and
practical.