On 19 February NKR President Bako Sahakyan met chairman of the Armenian National Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan, who arrived to Artsakh on the same day.
      The interlocutors touched upon a meeting with official delegation of the Republic of Armenia, which took place at the NKR National Assembly. The importance of further expanding and deepening ties between Artsakh and Armenia, making regular such open and frank discussions was mutually underlined.
       The meeting subsequently continues in an enlarged format.
       Representatives of legislative and executive branches of the two Armenian states discussed a wide range of issues related to mutually beneficial cooperation, NKR socioeconomic development, amelioration of the demographic situation, and peaceful settlement of the Azerbaijani-Karabagh conflict.
      The speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia underlined that the Armenian parliament will not even discuss any proposal, which is unacceptable for the people of Nagorno Karabagh. 
       The Armenian delegation was composed of vice-premier, minister of territorial administration Armen Gevorgyan, members of Parliament, head of Syunik region Souren Khachatryan and other officials.
       Chairman of the NKR National Assembly Ashot Ghoulyan, premier Ara Haroutyunyan, head of the Office of the NKR President, secretary of the Security Council Mousaelyan partook at the meeting.

2009-02-19