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On October 23 the RA NA Deputy Speaker Hermine Naghdalyan, the NA deputies Naira Zohrabyan, Ruzanna Muradyan, Heghine Bisharyan, Elinar Vardanyan, Margarit Yesayan, Ruzanna Muradyan and Karine Atshemyan met with the Delegation of the All-China Women’s Federation headed by Yu Hongqiu, member of the All-China Assembly of the People’s Representatives of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Deputy Chair of the All-China Women’s Federation and the member of the Secretariat.

The NA Deputy Speaker Hermine Naghdalyan welcomed the guests’ visit to Armenia and highlighted the further development and strengthening of the inter-parliamentary relations. She has noted that Armenia attaches a great importance to the deepening of multilateral cooperation with the People’s Republic of China. She has underlined that the Armenia-China Friendship Group led by her works effectively in the Armenian Parliament. Mrs Naghdalyan has emphasized the closer cooperation of the parliaments of the two countries, particularly, of the women MPs in different spheres, the mutual visits, which, according to her, will give an opportunity to find new ways and formats of cooperation. In the context of women’s role and importance in Armenia, their participation in the political processes and their representation in the parliament, Mrs Naghdalyan touched upon the legislation concerning the gender equality, the activities of the NGOs involved in women’s problems.

The women MPs representing the Armenian Parliament in their speeches also highlighted the active cooperation of the women parliamentarians, as well as presented the Armenian woman’s role in the social-political processes of our country.

The Deputy Chair of the All-China Women’s Federation and the member of the Secretariat Yu Hongqiu in her turn thanked for the warm reception and has expressed conviction that such meetings further contribute to the deepening of cooperation. She has also briefly presented the data of the women’s involvement in the political local authorities in China, according to which, only in the rural communities the women’s number is approximately 93%, and in the parliament 23%. To Mrs Yu Hongqiu‘s conviction this is already a big power, and it is the evidence that the women’s role and assessment gradually grows.

The parties have also discussed issues regarding women’s cooperation in public and political activities of the two countries and the directions of the joint work.