YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 16, ARMENPRESS: On September 16 the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov met with Ioannis Tais, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Greece to Armenia and Gavriil Avramidis, member of the Hellenic Parliament. The Department for Mass Media and Public Relations of the Parliament informed Armenpress that welcoming the guests the National Assembly Deputy Speaker highly assessed the centuries-old and friendly relations of the Armenian and Greek peoples, highlighted their further rapprochement and expansion.  

During the meeting the interlocutors touched upon the problem of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, as well as the genocides of the two peoples. Eduard Sharmazanov thanked the Hellenic Parliament for adopting the resolution criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide.

Touching upon the parliamentary cooperation, the National Assembly Deputy Speaker highlighted the necessity of supporting each other in different international platforms, noting that the behavior of some Greek MPs is doubtful, who try to cast a shadow on the Armenian-Greek relations, ignoring Greece’s official position in the Parliamentary Assemblies.

In his turn assessing the Armenian-Greek relations brotherly, the member of the Hellenic Parliament Gavriil Avramidis has noted that he welcomes the implementation of the right of self-determination of the NKR population. The Greek deputy has noticed that Greece officially supports the activities of the OSCE Minsk Group.

The National Assembly Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov invited his Greek counterpart to attend the conference “The Parliamentarians against Genocide” to be organized within the framework of the events of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, which is scheduled to be held in Yerevan on April 22-23.

In the course of the meeting the sides also discussed other issues of bilateral interest.