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On March 23 the parliamentary delegation of the Republic of Belarus, which is on an official visit in Yerevan led by the Vice Speaker of the Belarus Parliament Valery Ivanov and the Committee Chairman of RA NA Standing Committee on Defence, National Security and Internal Affairs, the Co-Chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee of Cooperation between the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia and the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus Hrayr Karapetyan visited Tsitsernakaberd and laid down flowers and a wreath at the monument perpetuating the memory of the 1915 Armenian Genocide victims and paid a tribute to the memory of the one and a half million innocent victims observing one-minute moment of silence.

The high-ranking guests were in the Genocide Museum, got familiarized with the documents confirming the Armenian Genocide.

The Vice Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Belarus made a note in the Book of the honorable guests.

On the same day in the National Assembly the meetings of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee between the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia and the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus continued.

The parliamentary delegation of the Republic of Belarus led by the Vice Speaker of the Belarus Parliament met with the RA Minister of Economy, the Co-Chairman of the Armenian-Belarus Inter-Governmental Joint Commission Nerses Yeritsyan. The Committee Chairman of RA NA Standing Committee on Defence, National Security and Internal Affairs, the Co-Chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee of Cooperation between the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia and the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus Hrayr Karapetyan and the Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Armenia Stepan Sukhamenko.

In the course of the meeting the sides discussed issues of cooperation in the spheres of industry, agriculture and economy. The interlocutors referred to the ways of implementation of predetermined programmes. They discussed issues concerning the sitting of the Armenian-Belarus Inter-Governmental Joint Commission to be held in April.

The Vice Speaker of the Belarus Parliament Valery Ivanov noted that they are ready to support for the implementation of the programmes of the Armenian-Belarus Inter-Governmental Joint Commission on economic cooperation by improving the legislative field.

The Chairman of the NA Standing Committee of State and Legal Affairs Davit Harutyunyan received the delegation led by the Vice Speaker of the Belarus Parliament Valery Ivanov.

In the course of the meeting the sides discussed the strengthening of relations between the parliaments of the two countries, cooperation in international organizations, the works of the PACE and the Euronest, parliamentary format of the Eastern Partnership.

Highly assessing the Armenian-Belarus relations the sides highlighted the cooperation in the international structures, where Armenia and Belarus permanently support each other. In the meeting they also touched upon the organization of the democratic elections of the local self-government bodies being held in Belarus on March 25, PACE Resolutions, the works of the Sub-Committee, which was set up on Belarus in PACE.