On November 11 President of the National Assembly Mr. Hovik Abrahamyan received the newly appointed Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Germany to Armenia Mr. Hans-Jochen Schmidt.

Welcoming the guest RA NA President congratulated him on the occasion of assuming that post and expressed hope that Ambassador Mr. Schmidt would do his best in developing the Armenian-German cooperation. Mr. Abrahamyan noted that the bilateral relations have already been on firm bases and highly assessed the existing trade-economic, political and cultural contacts, as well as the projects being implemented in Armenia by German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) enterprise.

During the meeting the interlocutors agreed that it was necessary to more develop the inter-parliamentary cooperation and use all the opportunities given by parliamentary diplomacy. Ambassador Mr. Schmidt conveyed the greetings of Bundestag President to RA NA President. Sending his greetings to his German counterpart Mr. Abrahamyan noted that the Armenian side was ready to host on an official visit in Yerevan the President of the German Parliament.

During the talk the sides also discussed the procedure of normalizing the Armenian-Turkish relations without preconditions, paying special attention to the role of the parliaments of two neigbouring countries.