Armenian Speaker of Parliament Alen Simonyan met on Friday with his Azerbaijani counterpart Sahiba Gafarova during the 152nd Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in Istanbul, Türkiye, Simonyan’s spokesperson, Movses Harutyunyan, confirmed to Armenpress. 

Simonyan had earlier said that he would meet Gafarova, among other counterparts, during the IPU Assembly.