Monday, March 30 2015 10:12

The Armenian National Assembly Committee for Foreign Relations and the Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Compatriots of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation adopted a joint statement after their second meeting in Yerevan. 

The statement highlights the importance of the 70th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the contribution of the Armenian and Russian peoples to the victory over Fascism, as well as comes out against glorification of the nazi crimes or any attempts of their historical rehabilitation. The sides reaffirmed their stands on the Genocide of Armenians and called on the parliaments of all countries to condemn and recognize the Genocide against Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1923 ahead of the Centennial of that crime against humanity.  The Russian and Armenian parliamentarians welcomed participation of the State Duma delegation in the Genocide Centennial commemorations in Yerevan.

They made a point of enhancing the economic integration of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) countries, welcomed free movement of goods, services, capital, and the labor force within the EEU. 

The sides called the integration in the field education and science as an essential factor of developing the economic relations within the EEU and creating a single education and science area.  The joint statement calls on the parliamentarians of the two countries for further cooperation at international parliamentary organizations. The sides agreed to boost the development in the field of legislation and improvement of the law-enforcement practice in the field of migration policy.