On May 30 the RA NA President Galust Sahakyan received Stepan Sukhorenko, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus to the RA. Eduard Sharmazanov, the NA Deputy Speaker, the Co-Chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee on Cooperation between the RA National Assembly and the National Assembly of Belarus, and the NA General Secretary Hrayr Tovmasyan attended the meeting.
The Ambassador congratulated Galust Sahakyan on the occasion of being elected the NA President and conveyed the congratulatory addresses by Vladimir Andreychenko, the Speaker of the Chamber of Representatives and Anatoliy Rubinov, the Speaker of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus. He reaffirmed the official invitation to Belarus in the name of the Speakers of the two Chambers of the Belarusian Parliament.
Thanking for the congratulations and the invitation, the NA Speaker highly assessed the Armenian-Belarusian relations based on the traditional friendship and mutual understanding, highlighting the further enlargement of cooperation in different spheres. He has underlined that the inter-parliamentary relations actively develop, emphasizing the activity of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee, which is an important circle of the relationship between the parliaments.
Both sides spotlighted the cooperation within the framework of the international organizations. They have noted that during the recent years the bilateral trade-economic relations register a positive move, but the high level of the political dialogue and the existing potential obligate to have high results.