On November 2, in the National Assembly the visiting session of the Standing Commission of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Parliamentary Assembly on Political Affairs and International Cooperation took place.
The RA NA President Alen Simonyan opened the meeting of the session. Welcoming the participants of the session Alen Simonyan particularly noted: “In the last years I have been trusted the chairmanship of the Commission, and I document that the joint work has been dynamic and constructive. The activities of the Commission have received positive dynamics in completing the agenda items for the CSTO Member States, which is very important for preservation of security and parliamentary open communication.”
The RA NA President stressed that the Armenian delegation actively and consistently works in the Standing Commission and gives expertise assessments to the documents. Thanking the participants for the joint work, ne mentioned that the RA National Assembly nominated Hakob Arshakyan, Vice President of the National Assembly to the post of the Chairman of the Standing Commission of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, expressing hope that the attendees will defend his proposal.
“I am sure that the new Chairman of the Commission also will work in the spirit of the traditions of the Standing Commission approved during the decades for the benefit of the development of the parliamentary dialogue and for the sake of our peoples,” the RA NA President concluded.
After approving the session agenda, the items of the election for the Committee Chairman and his Deputy were discussed. The RA NA Vice President Hakob Arshakyan was elected Committee Chairman for three years, and the Deputy Chairman – the First Deputy Chairman of the RA FA State Duma Committee on International Affairs Dmitri Novikov.
Hakob Arshakyan gave a speech on the implementation of the priorities of the Chairmanship of the Republic of Armenia in the organization. First of all, the NA Vice President thanked the attendees for the trust and assistance shown towards him in the election of the Commission Chairman.
“Our common problem is to work out means on facing challenges and threats in the international security, as well as the creation of the conditions for ensuring the parliamentary cooperation in the field of foreign policy and security.
Hakob Arshakyan touched upon in detail the progress of the implementation of the priorities of the RA Chairmanship to the CSTO. It was noted that assuming the Chairmanship, Armenia had a problem of modernization of response mechanisms of the prior crisis situations, monitoring, forecast and prevention of crisis situations. In this context, Hakob Arshakyan reminded that at the beginning of the year in Kazakhstan the successfully and operatively implemented peacekeeping action showed that the CSTO is an able organization. According to him, in this case the CSTO all states displayed unity and consolidation, which should be also expressed towards any other ally state organization.
