ArmInfo. On November 27, as part of the working visit to St. Petersburg, Vice-Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Edward Sharmazanov met in the Tauride Palace with the acting President of Armenia. General Secretary of the IPA CIS Council Sergei Antufiev.
Congratulating Antufiev on his appointment as acting. Secretary General of the Council of IPA SN, Sharmazanov highly appreciated the role of the CIS and its parliamentary component, adding that the RA NA delegates are active in the work of both the assembly and the commissions. Noting that this year marked the 25th anniversary of the creation of the CIS IPA, the Vice Speaker also stressed her role in the peaceful settlement of regional conflicts. In this context, he noted that the IPA CIS, as an international organization, should firmly act from the standpoint of peaceful settlement of conflicts.
Noting that next year the 70th anniversary of the convention adopted by the UN General Assembly on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was noted, Sharmazanov stressed the importance of condemning the IPA CIS MPs to the Armenian Genocide and the phenomenon of genocide as a whole.
"Only with condemnation can we warn the new crimes against humanity: here to the place remember Hitler's well-known phrase:" Who today, in the end, remembers the extermination of Armenians? "I am convinced that we must condemn the Turkish policy of denial and attempts to glorify fascism, said the vice speaker of the National Assembly.