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On November 21, the RA NA Deputy Speaker, the Head of the RA NA Delegation to PACE, the Member of PACE European Conservatives Group Hermine Naghdalyan and the Member of the Delegation and PACE European Conservatives Group Naira Zohrabyan met with the Head of the European Conservatives Group Ian Liddell-Grainger.

Welcoming the guest’s visit to Armenia, Hermine Naghdalyan has noted that the European Conservatives Party is an important partner for Armenia, adding that since Mr Liddell-Grainger’s tenure in PACE the cooperation with the Conservatives Group in PACE has become more effective and inclusive. In this context Mrs Naghdalyan expressed her gratitude to Ian Liddell-Grainger and the members of the Group for the support during the voting of the reports Escalation of Violence in Nagorno Karabakh and the Other Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan by Robert Walter and on Sarsang Reservoir by Milica Marković.

The Head of the Delegation presented in detail the reforms being underway in our country, touched upon the Constitutional reforms and the processes of legislation harmonization conditioned by it. She has underlined that the Constitutional reforms have been implemented with the close cooperation of the Venice Commission, as a result of which, almost all disputable items have been debated and solved.

“We show distinct political will in order to hold parliamentary legal elections enjoying the public trust in 2017,” Mrs Naghdalyan underscored.

In the course of the meeting the possibility of passing from Armenia’s monitoring procedure into post-monitoring procedure was discussed. The NA Deputy Speaker has noted that Armenia has registered serious progress in the process of the obligations assumed before the CoE.

Hermine Naghdalyan also talked about the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, noting that every conflict has its peculiarities, motivations and the settlement procedure. She has added that for our country the only internationally recognized format is the OSCE Minsk Group being involved in the NK conflict peaceful settlement and the efforts of moving to other platforms of the conflict settlement may result in unpredictable consequences.

Naira Zohrabyan also referred to the electoral processes, highlighting the authorties’ political will in holding fair elections.

The Head of PACE European Conservatives Group has expressed his satisfaction with the reforms being consistently continued in Armenia, and stressed that the OSCE Minsk Group is the only body with mandate for the settlement of the conflict and should have all the conditions for the fulfillment of its work. The Conservatives also will carry on assisting the conflict settlement process within the Minsk Group framework within their possibilities.

During the meeting other issues were also discussed.