Artak Zakaryan Hosted Israeli Ambassador To Armenia

ARTAK ZAKARYAN HOSTED ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA

20:20, 21 August, 2013

YEREVAN, AUGUST 21, ARMENPRESS: On August 21 the Chairman of the
Armenian National Assembly Committee on Foreign Relations Artak
Zakaryan received the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
of the State of Israel to the Republic of Armenia Shmuel Meirom.

“Armenpress” was informed from National Assembly that welcoming the
Ambassador Artak Zakaryan as Head of Armenia-Israel Parliamentary
Friendship Delegation, has underlined that though the relations with
Israel are good, but they still need to create wide opportunities
of further improvement and cooperation, especially in humanitarian,
economic and political spheres. He has also highlighted the necessity
of activating the inter-parliamentary relations. Artak Zakaryan has
noted that the destinies of the Armenian and Jewish peoples, as well
as the present problems are similar, too.

Ambassador Meirom also highlighted the development of relations of the
National Assembly with Israeli Knesset and noted that a Friendship
Group with Armenia had already been formed in Israel, and conveyed
to Artak Zakaryan the welcoming letter of Yisrael Hasson, the newly
appointed Head of the Group.

The interlocutors touched upon the regional problems. The Ambassador
presented the developments in Near East and the position of his country
on the settlement of the Near East problems. Artak Zakaryan emphasized
Armenia’s aspirations of having good relations with neighbouring
countries and referred to the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh
problem and the Armenian-Turkish relations.

In the course of the talk other issues were also discussed, both
sides highlighted the role of the Armenian community in Israel and the
Jewish community in Armenia in the development of bilateral relations.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress