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On January 21, the next sixteenth meeting of the EU-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (PCC) ended in Strasbourg, where the RA NA Delegation composed of the NA deputies Samvel Farmanyan (Head of Delegation), Alexander Arzumanyan, Aghvan Vardanyan, Nikol Pashinyan, Vahe Enfiajyan, Edmon Marukyan and Levon Dokholyan, took part, according to the press service of the Armenian parliament.

There were discussions on the perspectives of Armenia-EU relations, the new legal document regulating those relations, regional security, the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and Armenia-Turkey relations. At the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, moderated by the Committee Chairman Elmar Brok, an exchange of thoughts took place over agenda items, and the members of the Armenian Delegation answered the questions concerning the MPs of the European Parliament.

At the end of the two-day debates a joint Final Statement and Recommendations were adopted. In the adopted document, among other problems the concerning debates going on over the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in other inter-parliamentary organisations were also touched upon. In that connection, the European Parliament has stated that “it fully supports the negotiating process going on under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, which is the only internationally recognized format of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, and in this direction greatly encourages the Pan-European and other international organisations and institutions to be in consonance with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs' statements in their motions and resolutions on Nagorno Karabakh in order to contribute to the peaceful resolution in that way.”