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The Deputy Speaker of the Armenian parliament Eduard Sharmazanov hopes the Parliament of Slovakia will ratify the Armenia-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) within short period. Sharmazanov’s remarks came at a meeting with the Speaker of the National Council of Slovakia Andrej Danko in Bratislava.

As the parliament press service reported, the parties highlighted the development of the inter-parliamentary cooperation, the sides emphasized the activation of the mutual visits, the cooperation at the level of Friendship Groups, the effective cooperation in the issues of bilateral interest on the international parliamentary platforms.

Talking about the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh problem, the NA Deputy Speaker reaffirmed the position of the Armenian side to solve the conflict exclusively through peaceful negotiations, within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship. He positively assessed the balanced position of Slovakia in the settlement of the NK problem.

“Azerbaijan, distorting the essence of the conflict, the NK problem tries to present territorial dispute; meanwhile it is a struggle of the people's execution of the right to self-determination, freedom and independence,” the deputy speaker underlined.

To note, Sharmazanov is visiting Slovakia to attend the exhibition “Parliamentarians against Genocides” dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Genocide.