On October 20 President of the National Assembly Mr. Hovik Abrahamyan received the delegation led by the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Vice President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Mr. Henk Jan Ormel.

Welcoming the guests in the National Assembly, the President of the Parliament highly assessed the Armenian-Dutch inter-parliamentary cooperation. In particular, he highlighted West-East inter-parliamentary cooperation programme of the parliament of that country, in the framework of which in 2008 the visit of the delegation of the National Assembly has been already carried out to the Netherlands.

Mr. H. J. Ormel conveyed the warm greetings of the President of the Parliament of the Netherlands. The interlocutors agreed to strengthen the cooperation of the two parliaments for the benefit of Armenia’s European integration and goals to establish long-lasting peace and stability in the South Caucasus.

Then Mr. Abrahamyan presented Armenia’s approaches on the settlement of Artsakh problem, as well as normalization of relations with Turkey without conditions, answering his guests’ numerous questions.

Deputy of the National Assembly Mr. Volodya Badalyan also attended the meeting.