YEREVAN. – Armenian Parliament Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan received on Friday members of the Italy-Armenia friendship group of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of Italy.

Abrahamyan welcomed the guests and stated that it is the first visit on the friendship group level, which is expected to open a new page both for Armenia-Italy bilateral and inter-parliamentary ties, Parliament press service informs. As for the bilateral relations, Abrahamyan said that they have good perspectives for developing cooperation in political, economic, cultural and other fields. Italian co-chair of the Italy-Armenia Parliamentary Group, MP Sandra Zampa paid importance to the meetings to develop inter-state and inter-parliamentary ties.

“Europe should give back what the Armenians have contributed for years and should support the development of Armenia,” Zampa stated adding Italian parliament circulates a bill due to which the April 24 will be marked as the day of honoring memory of the Armenian genocide victims.

The sides touched upon regional issues, Armenia-Turkey relations and Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh] peace process.