On June 9 the Head of the NA Armenia-Syria Friendship Group Tatshat Vardapetyan, members of the Group Tevan Poghosyan and Gagik Melikyan summed up the results of their visit to the Syrian Arab Republic on June 1-5 at the press conference.
The Head of the NA Armenia-Syria Friendship Group Tatshat Vardapetyan informed that the goal of the visit was to get acquainted on the spot with the problems of the Armenian community, the crisis situation created in Syria, also clarify the possibilities of facilitating the hard situation of the Armenians in Syria.
In this context the members of the Friendship Group highlighted the meeting held with the representatives of the Armenian community in Syria, where the parties also touched upon the process of the Armenian Genocide recognition and discussed with the compatriots various problems concerning them.
Tatshat Vardapetyan assessed their visit to Syria effective and informed that the members of the delegation had also meetings with the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad, the Speaker of the Parliament, the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister and the religious leader, Grand Mufti, of the country.
The deputies noted that the authorities of Syria talked with warmth and satisfaction about the Armenian community of Syria and emphasized their role in the development of the country and expressed hope that the Armenian community would remain in Syria.