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RA National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan’s official visit to Lebanon continues.

Within the official visit to Lebanon RA National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan on April 12 visited Aynjar. He was the first Armenian high-ranking that was hosted in the settlement with Armenian residents. Our compatriots, who went to meet the Speaker of the National Assembly, warmly greeted him. Hovik Abrahamyan had a short talk with them, and as he mentioned during the meeting in Galust Gyulbenkian Hall he was extremely impressed by that warmth. RA National Assembly Speaker said that he felt such warmth during his whole visit and the meetings that he had with all the officials. He also noted that due to law-abiding stance of our compatriots such attitude is shown.

After laying a wreath to the monument erected in memory of the Armenians who died in Musa Dagh, Hovik Abrahamyan had a meeting with the residents of Aynjar. In the name of the latter the Mayor of Aynjar handed a souvenir to the Speaker of the National Assembly, who in his turn, as a memory, presented a souvenir depicting the Armenian Alphabet letters to the residents of Aynjar, calling on to keep and preserve the mother tongue. He said that he had brought books for the Armenian schools.

After coming back to Armenia, RA National Assembly Speaker intends “to find” a sister town in Armenia for Aynjar.

Hovik Abrahamyan touched upon the Armenian-Turkish relations and NK conflict, presenting Armenia’s positions, as well as social-economic issues.

RA National Assembly Speaker visited Saint Poghos (Paul) Church of Aynjar.

On April 13 RA National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan left for Antilias, where he laid a wreath before the chapel in memory of the Genocide victims.

The next meeting in Lebanon the Speaker of the National Assembly was with the Chairman of the Armenian Evangelical Churches of the Near East the Reverend Mkrtich Karagyozian.

Hovik Abrahamyan had a meeting with the Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia Nerses Petros XIX. In the last meetings the NA Speaker touched upon Armenia-Diaspora ties, Armenian-Turkish relations and issues concerning the Karabakh conflict settlement.

In the evening RA National Assembly Speaker had a meeting in the Armenian Embassy with the heads of the political parties and community structures. Later, in Lebanon in RA Embassy a reception was organized, which also attended foreign diplomats, who were accredited in Lebanon.