News - Deputy Armenian FM and MEP discuss regional security

Deputy Armenian Foreign Minister Paruyr Hovhannisyan received on Thursday the delegation led by Viola von Cramon-Taubadel, member of the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, Armenia’s Foreign Ministry reports. The deputy minister highly appreciated the position of the European Parliament in matters of primary importance for the Armenian side, emphasizing the resolution on the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh after the attack of Azerbaijan adopted on October 5, which strongly condemned the pre-planned and unjustified actions by Azerbaijan against the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. Paruyr Hovhannisyan thoroughly presented to the interlocutors the situation created as a result of the forced displacement of more than 100,000 of Karabakh Armenians as a result of the ethnic cleansing policy implemented by Azerbaijan in Nagorno Karabakh and in this context conveyed words of gratitude for the humanitarian support provided by the European Union and EU member states. The parties discussed a number of other issues of the Armenia-EU partnership agenda, including inter-parliamentary cooperation, as well as regional security issues.