On June 2 President of the National Assembly Mr. Hovik Abrahamyan received the Foreign Minister of Syrian Arab Republic Mr. Walid Al-Muallem who was in Yerevan on a two-day working visit.
Welcoming his high-ranking guest the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament noted that the Armenian people have sincere and warm friendly feelings towards the people of Syria. He stressed that we were grateful to the Syrian people for allocating asylum to the Armenian refugees, who were deprived of Motherland because of the Armenian Genocide during the years following the World War I.
The interlocutors highly assessed the level of the bilateral political relations and expressed their satisfaction on that occasion. Nevertheless, they mentioned that it was necessary to develop the inter-parliamentary contacts, using the Parliamentary Friendship Groups existing in both parliaments and the legislators’ mutual visits. Taking the advantage of the meeting Mr. Abrahamyan asked Foreign Minister Mr. Walid Al-Muallem to convey his warm greetings to the President of the Syrian Parliament.
During the meeting the interlocutors also discussed a number of issues regarding the regional security.