Tuesday, February 13 2024 17:02

ArmInfo.On February 13, the RA NA President Alen Simonyan received the delegation led by the  member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Parliament Sir John Whittingdale.

As the press service of the RA  NA reports, welcoming the guest, Alen  Simonyan highly appreciated the positive dynamics of the  Armenia-United Kingdom relations and thanked his colleagues for their  visit.

At the beginning of the meeting the NA President touched upon the  military provocation carried out by Azerbaijan on February 13, as a  consequence of which the Armenian side has casualties and wounded. He  presented the security problems existing in the regions to his  colleagues and expressed the concerns of the Armenian side.

"The path of democracy and the cooperation with the international  colleagues is to be our only security system, and conditioned by that  I should mention that your visit to the Republic of Armenia is  special for us," the NA President noted.

Sir John Whittingdale expressed his condolences and support to the  families of the deceased because of military action of Azerbaijan and  to the Armenian people.

The Armenia-United Kingdom inter-parliamentary cooperation, the  expansion of collaboration in the security, in trade-economic and  other directions and a number of issues regarding the bilateral  cooperation were on the agenda of the meeting.

The British parliamentarians recorded with satisfaction the  continuous democratic reforms in Armenia and expressed their  readiness for boosting the further development of those reforms.