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At the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, the Head of the RA NA delegation, the Chair of the NA Standing Committee on Science, Education, Culture, Diaspora, Youth and Sport Sisak Gabrielyan, the delegation members, the NA deputies Hrachya Hakobyan and Tsovinar Vardanyan participated in the works of meetings of the International Secretariat of the Assembly, Committee Chairs and rapporteurs in the city of Limassol of the Republic of Cyprus.

During the three-day visit, the RA NA deputies had meetings with the newly elected President of the Republic of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides, the President of the House of Representatives of Cyprus Annita Demetriou and the Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos.

During the meetings, issues regarding Armenia-Cyprus cooperation, the opportunity of visiting the Republic of Cyprus for citizens of Armenia without a visa were discussed. Reference was made to the expected official visit of the President of the House of Representatives of Cyprus to the Republic of Armenia.

During the meeting of the Secretariat of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, Sisak Gabrielyan, on behalf of Armenia and the delegation, thanked the President of the organization for expressing a tough and direct position regarding the aggression carried out by Azerbaijan against Armenia, as well as the blocking of the vital road of the Lachin Corridor. The need for the presence of an international observation mission in Nagorno-Karabakh was also mentioned.

The Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, the Greek MP Maximos Kharakopoulos informed that he regularly receives calls and letters from the Azerbaijani embassy in Greece for his harsh and critical statements. He mentioned that he will remain faithful to the values he adopted regarding human rights protection.

As a sign of protest, Maximos Kharakopoulos left the Greece-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Friendship Group.

During the meeting, issues and proposals related to the upcoming Assembly were also discussed.