Wednesday, January 27 2021 16:10

ArmInfo. On January 27, the President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan received the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of  the Russian Federation to our country Sergey Kopirkin. The press  service of the RA NA reports.

Welcoming the Ambassador, Ararat Mirzoyan once again underlined the  importance of the allied relations between the two countries and  highly assessed the active involvement of the Russian side in terms  of both suspending the military actions in Nagorno Karabakh and  overcoming the created humanitarian problems. The President of the  National Assembly has stressed that the most important agenda item  for the Armenian side continues remaining the return of the Armenian  prisoners of war and the captives to the homeland and has expressed  confidence that the Russian colleagues will continue to make  mediating efforts in this direction in order to carry out the  appropriate provision of the tripartite statement signed on November  9.

The Speaker of the parliament has also underscored that the  tripartite statement has not solved the Nagorno Karabakh problem, and  the Armenian side is ready to resume the negotiations over the  Nagorno Karabakh status in the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group  Co-Chairs, taking as a basis the peoples' right to  self-determination.

Ambassador Kopirkin presented the works being done by the  humanitarian centre set up by the Russian Federation, as well as by  the peacekeepers. In his turn the RF Ambassador has noted that it is  necessary to carry on the peaceful negotiations in the framework of  the OSCE Minsk Group for the specification of the complete settlement  of the problem, including the Nagorno Karabakh status.

During the meeting the interlocutors also discussed a wide scope of  issues regarding the more activation and deepening of cooperation on  bilateral and multi-lateral platforms of the two countries'  parliaments.