Damascus-Sana
People's Assembly Speaker Hammouda Sabbagh, during his meeting today, Dikran Kevorkian, Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia in Damascus, stressed the importance of deepening the Syrian-Armenian parliamentary relations and enhancing mutual visits, calling for the development of bilateral relations between the two friendly countries in all fields.
Sabbagh praised the distinguished relations of brotherhood and friendship between the Syrian and Armenian peoples for many decades, pointing to the long history of suffering and pain that the two friendly peoples faced at the hands of the Ottoman occupation, with its old and new faces, the latest of which is the ongoing crime committed by the Turkish regime and its mercenaries by cutting off drinking water from the city of Hasaka and its vicinity.
For his part, the Armenian ambassador in Damascus affirmed that the Armenian-Syrian relations are historical, rooted and always renewed, and that work must be done to develop joint parliamentary relations, indicating that a delegation of representatives in the National Assembly of Armenia will visit Syria in addition to Syrian Armenian businessmen, but this is currently linked to the decline of the Corona epidemic and the improvement of movement in airports The two countries.
The Speaker of the People’s Assembly also received from Ambassador Kevorkian a congratulatory message from the President of the National Assembly of Armenia, Ararad Mirozyan, on the occasion of the election of Sabbagh as Speaker of the People’s Assembly in its third legislative role, in which Mirozian expressed his confidence in the joint efforts in effective cooperation between the parliamentarians of the two countries in order to achieve the interests of the two friendly peoples.
The meeting was attended by the first counselor at the Armenian embassy in Damascus and a number of council members.
Wasim Al-Adawi