YEREVAN. ― Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian received on Friday US deputy assistant secretary of state Thomas Melia and his delegation. They discussed Armenia’s democratic challenges in the pre-election period as well as its foreign policy priorities overall.

In a separate encounter, Hovannisian met in a group setting, and discussed a similar agenda of topics, with Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt, Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski, and Bulgarian foreign minister Nikolay Mladenov.