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YEREVAN. – President of the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia, Galust Sahakyan, on Thursday received British Ambassador Judith Margaret Farnworth.

The NA informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that the parliament speaker stressed that the Armenia-UK political contacts have intensified and cooperation achieved considerable progress in recent years. Sahakyan expressed a conviction that Armenia looks toward expanding relations with Great Britain.

In addition, the NA President touched upon the two resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh during the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Winter Session, and which, by his assessment, were distorting the reality and inhibiting the peaceful negotiation process over the Karabakh conflict, and misleading the international community. Head of the Armenian parliament noted that the resolution, entitled “Escalation of Violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and Other Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan,” by British former MP Robert Walter, was not adopted due to the PACE MPs who voted for justice. “That resolution contained a serious risk, as it was an inadmissible attempt by Azerbaijan and its co-thinkers to move the settlement of the Karabakh problem to parallel platforms,” said Sahakyan. The speaker of parliament noted that Armenia continues remaining adherent to the ongoing negotiating process under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, which is the only internationally recognized platform of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.

Ambassador Farnworth, for her part, also emphasized the development of the bilateral relations in several domains.

In the course of the meeting the sides touched upon the process of the constitutional reforms. In this connection, the UK ambassador welcomed the decision of the Armenian authorities to switch to a parliamentary system of governance.

And regarding Robert Walter’s anti-Armenian report, Judith Margaret Farnworth noted that an individual’s report does not reflect the policy of the government, and added that Great Britain supports a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem.

On January 26, PACE voted against MP Robert Walter’s (UK) one-sided report entitled “Escalation of Violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and Other Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan,” but adopted MP Milica Marković’s (Bosnia and Herzegovina) one-sided report about Sarsang Reservoir in Nagorno-Karabakh, and entitled “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water.”

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