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On March 29 RA National Assembly Speaker Arevik Petrosyan received the Armenian deputy of the Swedish Parliament Esabelle Dingizian.

Welcoming the guest Mrs. Petrosyan expressed her satisfaction and gratitude in connection with the adoption and condemnation of the resolution of the Armenian Genocide, perpetrated by the Ottoman Turkey in 1915 in the Swedish Parliament, first of all, assessing it as a big step aimed at condemning the crimes in the world and excluding them. RA NA Vice Speaker touched upon the Armenian-Swedish bilateral and multi-lateral relations, emphasized the necessity of the development of the inter-parliamentary relations.

Mrs. Dingizian expressed her gratitude for the warm reception. She also highlighted the Armenian-Swedish relations and ensured that within her possibilities she would take necessary steps to form Armenian-Swedish Parliamentary Friendship Group in the Swedish Parliament and develop inter-parliamentary relations.

At the guest’s request Mrs. Petrosyan presented the structure, the activities, the procedure of the legislative reforms, the state of the involvement of the political forces of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, the expanded powers of the National Assembly, the issues of the legislative regulation of the gender issues and the developments. Mrs. Petrosyan noted that it was envisaged to form a consultative body on gender issues adjunct to RA National Assembly Speaker, which would study the gender issues coordinated and in a comprehensive way, discuss the initiatives of the parliamentarians representing different political forces, the gender examination of the legislation, the analysis, etc.

Mrs. Dingizian in her turn presented the existing solutions and mechanisms in the Swedish Parliament on gender issues.

During the meeting the sides noted that the gender issues are emphasized in the whole world, every country in this sphere has special problems and necessity of solving them in a special way. They highlighted the active cooperation of the parliaments in the sphere of equal opportunities policy.

The sides expressed hope that after the establishment of the Council on Gender Issues in RA National Assembly the cooperation of similar structures of the parliaments of two countries would be active and practical.