Ararat Mirzoyan: We should look at all existing conflicts in the  world in terms of protection of human rights. 

ArmInfo. On June 14, the RA NA  President Ararat Mirzoyan received the delegation headed by the Vice  President of the Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany Thomas  Oppermann, the press service of RA NA reports.

Welcoming the guests in the National Assembly the Head of the  Parliament expressed hope that the current visit would give new  impetus to the dynamically developing relations between the two  countries. According to Ararat Mirzoyan, his official visit paid  recently to the FRG, as well as the meetings between the high ranking  leaders of the two countries will fill in the agenda of Armenia-  Germany relations with numerous new programmes. The Head of the  Parliament highlighted from the agenda the inter-parliamentary active  cooperation in different formats, which would be of continuous  character.

The President of the National Assembly has expressed his gratitude to  the German side for the efforts directed to the ratification of the  EU-Armenia Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement,  expecting that in its implementation phase Germany also has an active  role. In this context Ararat Mirzoyan touched upon the RA citizens'  problem of the EU entry visa liberalisation, recording that the time  for taking practical steps had ripened.

Thanking for the warm reception Thomas Oppermann has distinguished  three circumstances that condition the interest of Germany in  deepening the relations with Armenia: the Resolution of the Bundestag  adopted in 2016 on the crimes committees towards Armenians in the  Ottoman Empire in 1915, the velvet revolution in Armenia which had  its positive response in Europe and the visit of the FRG Chancellor  Angela Merkel to Yerevan. "We show great admiration towards Armenia,  and we are ready to strengthen the bilateral relations," the Vice  President of the Bundestag said.

The President of the National Assembly has presented to the guests  the reforms which go on and will be implemented in the most different  spheres. "We are resolute for consistently developing the democratic  values and democracy will not have regress among us," Ararat Mirzoyan  noted.  The Head of the Parliament has evaluated the adoption of the  Resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide by the FRG Bundestag,  underlining that by only recognizing and condemning such crimes it  will be possible to prevent the crimes directed to mankind.

The NA President expressed readiness of the Armenian side to continue  having contribution to the processes in the international security,  particularly touching upon the effective cooperation of the Armenian  peacekeepers in Afghanistan with the German commanders.  Informing  that the visit of the FRG Bundestag delegation is regional, Thomas  Oppermann has noted that one of their goals is to get acquainted with  the sides' approaches for the solution of the existing conflicts and  promote the establishment of the dialogue and the atmosphere of  peace.

"We should look at all existing conflicts in the world in terms of  protection of human rights. The right of the people's free living  should not be conditioned by any political aspirations of any power,"  the Head of the Parliament said. According to him, the bellicose  rhetoric sounding in Azerbaijan nullifies the international  negotiating efforts.

The parties also referred to the perspectives of bilateral and  multilateral cooperation, emphasized the further enlivening of the  inter-parliamentary ties and the regional cooperation of the two  countries.