RA FOREIGN MINISTER EDWARD NALBANDIAN’S OFFICIAL VISIT TO POLAND AND CZECH REPUBLIC CONTINUES
Noyan Tapan
Feb 18, 2009
WARSAW, FEBRUARY 18, NOYAN TAPAN. On February 17, Polish President
Lech Kaczynski received RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, who was
in Poland on an official visit. Referring to Armenian-Polish common
features, L. Kaczynski said that friendship and mutual sympathy between
the two peoples has a history of many centuries and is a good basis for
development of mutually beneficial cooperation between the two states.
Problems regarding ensuring peace and stability in the South Caucasian
region were discussed at the meeting. E. Nalbandian presented the
latest developments in the Nagorno Karabakh settlement negotiations
process.
The interlocutors also discussed the process of normalization of the
Armenian-Turkish relations. In that context L. Kaczynski welcomed
the steps taken by Armenia to normalize the relations.
According to the report of the RA Foreign Ministry Press and
Information Department, the same day E. Nalbandian visited the
parliament of Poland, where he had individual meetings with Polish Sejm
Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski and Senate Chairman Bogdan Borusewicz.
E. Nalbandian attached importance to cooperation of Armenian and
Polish parliaments considering it one of the guarantees of deepening
the friendly relations between the two countries. B. Komorowski, in
his turn, said that Poland pays much attention to the strengthening
of stability and security in the South Caucasus and for that purpose
attaches importance to peaceful settlement of regional problems and
establishment of good-neighborly relations.
E. Nalbandian drew the attention of Polish Sejm Speaker to Azerbaijan’s
attempts to start arms race in the region and its bellicose policy,
which not only hinder the Nagorno Karabakh settlement process, but
also seriously endanger the regional security.
The EU Eastern Partnership proposal and cooperation to be carried
out within that framework were discussed at the meeting with Senate
Chairman Bogdan Borusewicz. Poland is one of the proposal’s co-authors.
E. Nalbandian also visited the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions
and Human Rights (ODIHR), where he met with Office Director Janez
Lenarcic. The process of democratic reforms and steps undertaken in
that sphere were discussed at the meeting.
The same day the RA Foreign Minister visited the RA Embassy in Poland,
where he met with the representatives of the Armenian community
of Warsaw.
Concluding his visit to Poland, the RA Foreign Minister left for
Czech Republic.