From May 16 to 18 the 5^th sitting of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia (RA NA) and the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus (RB NA) was held, and the co-chairs of it were the RB NA Vice Speaker Viktor Guminsky and the Chairman of the RA NA Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs Hrayr Karapetyan. The delegation composed of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee members Hovhannes Maragaryan, Vardan Khachatryan, Ruben Sadoyan, as well as the mayors of Kapan and Sevan, invited by the Belarusian side.

According to the established agenda, the issues of the RA and RB cooperation and RA and RB Inter-Regional cooperation has been debated in the international parliamentary structures, as a result of which the sides has made a decision.

At the end of the sitting the sides agreed to hold the next sitting in Yerevan in the second half of 2011.

On the same day the RA NA delegation had meetings with the members of the standing committees for Foreign Affairs and Security and CIS of the RB NA House of Representatives, as well as for Regional Policy and Local Self-Government.

During the visit an agreement on Trade-economic, Scientific-Technical and Cultural Cooperation was signed between the city of Sevan of RA Gegharkunik Marz and the city of Osipovich of Mogilyov Marz of Belarus.

On the last day of the visit the RA NA delegation visited a number of industrial enterprises.