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On October 16, the RA NA President Ara Babloyan met with the President of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Syllouris in Saint Petersburg.

The RA NA President has noted that the firm relations of the two countries are conditioned by the historical-cultural, spiritual and value of systems commonalities, as well as by the same destiny. In Mr Babloyan’s word, one of the vivid evidence of the historically established fraternal relations between the Armenian and Cypriot peoples is the recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide by Cyprus already in 1975. He expressed his gratitude for the unanimous adoption of the Resolution criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide by the House of Representatives on 2 April 2015.

Talking about the NK problem, Ara Babloyan has underlined that the negotiating way of the conflict solution has no alternative. In this issue he highly assessed the resolute support of Cyprus’ authorities to the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs.

The parties highlighted the further activation of the parliamentary delegations’ mutual visits and the cooperation in the inter-parliamentary structures.

The Armenian community of Cyprus was touched upon: it has been noted that the Armenians of Cyprus are full-fledged members of the society of Cyprus, they have great role in the public and political life of the country, as well as they serve an important ring connecting our two countries.

The heads of the parliaments invited each other to visit their countries.