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YEREVAN, APRIL 13, ARMENPRESS. On April 13, the Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, Sargis Khandanyan, received the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the French Republic to Armenia, Anne Louyot, ARMENPRESS was informed from the parliament of Armenia.
Welcoming the Ambassador, Sargis Khandanyan thanked the French Foreign Ministry for issuing a statement regarding the Azerbaijani provocation that took place in Tegh community on April 11.
The interlocutors discussed a number of issues related to Armenian-French cooperation, as well as regional developments.
The French Ambassador congratulated Sargis Khandanyan on his election as the Chairman of the Standing Committee and wished him fruitful work. The Ambassador attached importance to the cooperation of the parliamentarians of the two countries in international structures.
Reference was made to the visit of Yaël Braun-Pivet, the Speaker of the National Assembly of France, to Armenia and the agreements reached with the President of the National Assembly of Armenia regarding the expansion of cooperation between legislative bodies, as well as cooperation between staffs, exchange of experience.
On April 11, around 4:00 p.m., the units of the Azerbaijani armed forces started to fire at the servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia carrying out engineering works in the direction of Tegh community. The Armenian side resorted to retaliatory actions. As a result of the Azerbaijani provocation on April 11, the Armenian side has 4 victims and 6 wounded. The Armenian side does not have any positional loss.