President receives Chairman of International Affairs Committee of Russia's Federal Assembly
President Serzh Sargsyan received today Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Konstantin Kosachev, who is in Armenia to attend joint sittings with the RA National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Relations.
According to the release by the President's Office, Serzh Sargsyan noted that the Armenian-Russian relations are distinguished by active dialogue and effective cooperation at all levels - economic, military, military-technical and humanitarian. Emphasizing that the furtherance of Armenia's strategic partnership with Russia is one of our country's foreign policy priorities, President Sargsyan noted that Armenia wishes to build constructive and mutually beneficial cooperation with all those integration associations that are key actors in our region.
In this context, the President Sargsyan thanked Konstantin Kosachev for voicing unbiased position on Armenia's foreign policy priorities at different platforms.
Sargsyan next attached great importance to inter-parliamentary ties in the development and strengthening of Armenian-Russian bilateral relations and expressed confidence that the parliamentary committees' joint sitting would be held in a friendly and constructive atmosphere.
According to the source, Kosachev presented the issues and resolutions discussed at the Yerevan joint session, which was held in a constructive atmosphere with a focus on the furtherance and strengthening of Armenian-Russian relations and the ongoing cooperation between the two legislatures.