YEREVAN, AUGUST 30, ARMENPRESS. Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Artak Zakaryan held a meeting with Deputy Chairman of the lower house (Mazhilis) of Kazakhstan's Parliament Vladimir Bozhko in Astana.

Artak Zakaryan arrived in Astana to participate in “Building a nuclear weapon-free world” international conference on August 29-30, press service of the Armenian Parliament told “Armenpress”.

Welcoming the Armenian partner and expressing gratitude for participating in the conference, Vladimir Bozhko presented the newly elected lower house’s (Mazhilis) structure, the main directions of the legislative activities, the priorities of the inter-parliamentary cooperation. Bozhko talked about the Armenian-Kazakh inter-state relations, and expressed hope that despite the difficulties caused by the world economic crisis the bilateral economic ties have a great potential to expand.

Artak Zakaryan expressed gratitude for the warm reception, presented the major priorities of Armenia’s foreign policy, the process of the political settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, stressed the importance of developing the parliamentary component of the Armenian-Kazakh relations, intensifying the ties between the parliamentary friendship groups of the two states and signing cooperation memorandum between the Committees on Foreign Affairs.

The sides also proposed to organize mutual visit of the parliamentary friendship groups between the two states.

Other Armenian and Kazakh officials also attended the meeting.