Okt 3, 2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
Yerevan.
Speaker of
Parliament Alen Simonyan has met with the delegation led by Harris Georgiades,
the chairman of the Foreign and European Affairs Committee of the Cypriot
Parliament and Chairman of the Cyprus-Armenia Interparliamentary commission for
cooperation.
Simonyan thanked the Cypriot MPs for a newly adopted resolution by the House of Representatives which condemns the Azerbaijani large-scale aggression and ethnic cleansing policy against the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, the parliament’s press service said in a readout.
The Speaker
of Parliament highly appreciated President of the Cypriot House of
Representatives Annita Demetriou’s principled speech at the European
Conference of Presidents of Parliament in Dublin on September 28 when the
latter raised the ongoing crimes against the people of NK and called on the
international community to take urgent action to prevent ethnic cleansings.
Humanitarian
issues relating to the forcibly displaced people of Nagorno-Karabakh were
discussed at the meeting.
The Cypriot
parliamentarians said that they stand in solidarity with Armenia and are ready
to support as much as possible. Georgiades said that Cyprus and Armenia are
facing similar challenges, and are similar with their peace-loving nature, thus
the two countries are very sensitive towards each other’s pain.
Bilateral
agenda issued of the two parliaments were also discussed. The parties attached
importance to the important role of the interparliamentary commissions for
cooperation.
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