Nathalie Loiseau: we will support Armenia on path to peace

ArmInfo.RA NA Vice President Ruben Rubinyan received the Parliamentary Delegation of the  Republic of France on February 23, the press service of the Parliament of Armenia reports.

The meeting was attended by Chair of the RA NA Standing Committee on  Defense and Security Andranik Kocharyan and the members of the  Armenia-France Friendship Group led by Head Vladimir Vardanyan.

"For years, the Armenian-French relations have been perceived as  privileged, in which the Armenian diaspora in France also played a  major role. Today, we can record that the Armenian-French relations  have already reached the institutional level, based on mutual  interests," RA NA Vice President Ruben Rubinyan said, welcoming the  members of the delegation in the Parliament.

The NA Vice President thanked Chair of the Subcommittee on Security  and Defence of the EP Foreign Affairs Committee Nathalie Loiseau for  supporting Armenia in the European Parliament, and the French Senate  for the resolution adopted on January 17, 2024.

Touching upon the event of the reburial of Missak and Melinee  Manouchian in the French pantheon with the participation of the  delegation led by the Prime Minister of Armenia, he underlined that  the warm friendly relations between the two peoples are unshakable.

The Chair of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence of the EP  Foreign Affairs Committee Nathalie Loiseau thanked for the warm  welcome and noted that Armenia has its own special place in French  political life. "Our relations are special. We will support Armenia  on the way to peace," Nathalie Loiseau mentioned.

Head of the RA NA Armenia-France Friendship Group Vladimir Vardanyan,  considering the visit of the delegation led by the Minister of the  Armed Forces of the Republic of France to Armenia as unprecedented,  underscored the role of the legislative and executive bodies of the  Republic of France in the development of Armenian-French relations  and the adoption of pro-Armenian resolutions and decisions.

Reference was made to the plans to meet the necessary needs of the  people forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh in Armenia.