ArmInfo. Vice speaker of the Armenian parliament Eduard Sharmazanov and the Iranian Ambassador to Armenia Seyed Kazem Sadjadi The issues of the Armenian- Iranian cooperation were discussed by the.
The Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament highly assessed the balanced position of Tehran on the Karabakh settlement. He stressed that attempts to give the Karabakh conflict a religious character are doomed to failure. As a testimony to what he said, he cited the example of Armenian-Iranian friendship, as the peoples of the bearers of the two great religions.
Touching upon the economic cooperation, Sharmazanov stressed that Armenia's membership in the Eurasian Economic Union, as well as the signing of the framework agreement with the European Union, creates favorable conditions for intensification of cooperation with Iran. The parties also addressed the activities of the free economic zone of Meghri. Sharmazanov, in order to improve the efficiency of economic cooperation, proposed to intensify the meetings of the relevant parliamentary commissions of the two countries.