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On December 4 the RA NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan received the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the RA Katherine Jane Leach.

Welcoming the Ambassador the NA Speaker has noted that during the recent years the Armenian-British cooperation develops, and Armenia highlights the deepening of cooperation with the United Kingdom in bilateral and multi-lateral formats. Hovik Abrahamyan has underlined that Armenia gives great importance to the development of relations with the EU member countries and the European integration is one of the priorities of the RA foreign policy. To the conviction of the Head of the parliament, the activation of the relations between the legislative bodies is important for the development and expansion of the Armenian-British inter-state cooperation. “We highlight the inter-parliamentary cooperation between Armenia and Great Britain with conviction that the parliamentary diplomacy is one of the important levers for advancing the political dialogue between the countries, and as NA Speaker, I am ready for making efforts in advancing the Armenian-British inter-parliamentary cooperation and supporting all the initiatives, which will promote the strengthening of friendship between the two countries and peoples,” Hovik Abrahamyan noted. To the NA Speaker’s conviction, there is big potential for activating the political dialogue between Armenia and Great Britain, further effective development and reinforcement of relations, activation of the contacts in different formats and expanding the cooperation borders. He also highlighted the activation of economic cooperation between Armenia and the United Kingdom.

Expressing her gratitude for reception the Ambassador Leach also deemed necessary the development and deepening of the Armenian-British cooperation in different directions, and in this context she emphasized the activation of the inter-parliamentary relations. Mrs Leach stressed that Great Britain as EU member country highlighted the development of Armenia-EU cooperation and welcomed Armenia’s efforts in that direction.

In the course of the meeting the interlocutors discussed regional issues, touched upon the NK problem settlement, Safarov case and other issues of bilateral interest.