YEREVAN, AUGUST 31, ARMENPRESS. President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on August 31 received the Japanese delegation led by Chairman of Japan-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship League Seishiro Eto, press service of the Presidential administration told “Armenpress”.

Welcoming the delegation’s first visit to Armenia, the Armenian President said Japan has its unique role in Armenia’s relations with the countries of Eastern Asia, and our country seeks to develop comprehensive and mutually beneficial cooperation with friendly Japan.

Serzh Sargsyan expressed hope the Japanese delegation’s visit to Armenia will give a new impetus to the intensification of inter-parliamentary ties of the two states raising the Armenian-Japanese cooperation to a qualitatively new level in that field.

At the meeting the sides remembered the Armenian President’s official visit to Japan in 2012 which gave new opportunities for further expansion and deepening of the bilateral cooperation.

Seishiro Eto expressed his readiness to do everything possible to make more active the contacts between the parliamentarians and to contribute to the strengthening of the Armenian-Japanese inter-parliamentary ties, as well as to make all these as a strong base for the development of bilateral economic ties.

The sides discussed the cooperation development opportunities and the existing potential in various mutually beneficial sectors, as well as within the framework of international organizations. 

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