"The issues regarding the security for both Armenia and Greece are considered prior," Deputy Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Eduard Sharmazanov who was on a working in Athens said at a meeting with the National Defense Minister of Greece Panos Kammenos, on May 22.
According to the NA press-office, the sides expressed satisfaction about the current high level of bilateral military-political cooperation. Sharmazanov positively assessed the fact that the officers of the Armenian Armed Forces are given opportunity to get trained in the Hellenic Republic.
Eduard Sharmazanov noted that the issues regarding the security for both Armenia and Greece are considered prior. He underlined that Turkey is a real threat for the region. "Turkey does not only deny the Armenian Genocide, but it illegally keeps under blockade Armenia for 23 years and has forcibly occupied one third of Cyprus," the deputy speaker noted.
Eduard Sharmazanov condemned the aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan against Nagorno Karabakh Republic and added that Turkey was the only country to openly support Azerbaijan those days. He informed the Greek minister of Azerbaijan's ISIS- style atrocities against the Armenian soldiers, as well as the peaceful population.
"The tortures of the civilians by Azerbaijan are considered as bad manifestation of military crime," Eduard Sharmazanov stated.
Mr. Kammenos in his turn highlighted the strengthening and rapprochement of the Armenian-Greek relations. He expressed gratitude to the National Assembly of Armenia for the statement unanimously adopted on March 24 of the previous year condemning the Greek Genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
The national defence minister of Greece stressed that the Nagorno Karabakh conflict should be settled exclusively through peaceful means. He considered inadmissible any attempt of the military solution of the problem.
At the end of the meeting Eduard Sharmazanov handed the NA Speaker's Memorial Medal to Panos Kammenos for his significant contribution to the strengthening and developing of the Armenian-Greek bilateral ties.
On the same day Eduard Sharmazanov and Panos Kammenos visited Syntagma Square and laid a wreath at the Unknown Soldier's Monument.