Thursday, July 12 2018 16:58

ArmInfo. On July 12, Chairman of the  Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Foreign Relations  Armen Ashotyan received member of the German Bundestag Nicholas Lebel  and German Vice-Consul to Armenia Klaus Wendelberger.

As reported by the press service of the parliament, Ashotyan  addressed the issues of intensifying the interaction between the  parliaments of the two countries, stressing the importance of  implementing joint work at the level of interparliamentary friendship  groups and assemblies. In this context, Ashotyan expressed hope for a  qualitatively new, more constructive cooperation with the  parliamentary group of the German Bundestag - the South Caucasus.

The parties also addressed the Armenia-EU Comprehensive and Extended  Partnership Agreement. The chairman of the commission stressed the  need to ratify the document in the national parliaments of the EU  member states in a short time, expressing hope for an early  ratification by the German parliament.  Ashotyan stressed the role of  parliamentary control in connection with the application of the  Agreement and highlighted in this channel the study of the German  experience.

During the conversation, the recent processes in Armenia, the reforms  of the electoral legislation are touched upon. Ashotyan noted that  during the reform of the Electoral Code (IC), all political forces  see the formation of electoral reforms based on broad political  consensus, public involvement and exclusively international  standards, in particular the proposals of the Venice Commission and  the OSCE/ODIHR.

The chairman of the commission also addressed a memorandum concluded  between the German company Rheinmetall and the Azerbaijani Ministry  of Defense and urged the German colleague to carefully study this  issue.

Armen Ashotyan noted that all forces operating in the political field  of Armenia, regardless of differences in their approaches to  political issues, are unified on the regional and foreign policy  front, defining the state interest as a priority.