On September 11 the RA NA Vice President Eduard Sharmazanov received the parliamentary delegation of the Republic of France led by Alain Neri, Head of the French Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. The Head of Armenia-France Friendship Group Ara Babloyan and the member of the Group Mnatsakan Mnatsakanyan took part in the meeting.
Welcoming the French counterparts’ visit to the Republic of Armenia and the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the NA Vice President Eduard Sharmazanov has noted with satisfaction that the relations of the two countries are at high level, and they continue to dynamically develop, which particularly is also conditioned by the circumstance that in the NK conflict of great importance for Armenia France is one of the three Co-Chair countries of the OSCE Minsk Group.
In the course of the meeting, besides other issues, the interlocutors also touched upon the problem of the NK conflict settlement.
Referring to the French socialists’ visit paid to Armenia a few days ago, Mr Sharmazanov highlighted the announcements, according to which the NK conflict should be exclusively settled in peaceful way, as well as the Nagorno Karabakh Republic should be involved as negotiating side in the NK conflict settlement.
The NA Vice President noticed that the French deputies’ visit to the Nagorno Karabakh Republic makes audible the Artsakh people’s voice in Europe, who fights for the recognition of its freedom, justice and right to self-determination.
Thanking for the warm reception the Head of the delegation Alain Neri noted that their visit to the NKR should be observed in terms of the human and peoples’ rights, protection of the right of the nations’ self-determination, which they highlight as an OSCE Parliamentary Assembly member country.
Head of Armenia-France Friendship Group of the National Assembly Ara Babloyan and the members of the Group met with the members of France-Armenia Friendship Group Alain Neri, Jean Bizet, Jean-Marc Jermain and Jacques Remilier.
Alain Neri underscored that they had visited the frontline soldiers, who fulfill their duty towards the Motherland. “The system of values that France and Armenia have, should be more developed and called on,” Neri noticed. The Deputy Chairman of France-Armenia Friendship Group Jermain noticed that their visit to Artsakh had certain political message connected with the frontier cases of the recent period. According to Jermain, the goal of their visit is also to address the world that in Artsakh there is only fighting for values – democracy and protection of human rights.
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