STEPANAKERT. – President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh) Bako Sahakyan received a group of the French National Assembly and Senate representatives who are on a visit to Artsakh.

President Sahakyan characterized relationship with France as one of the most important directions of NKR’s foreign policy, stressing the need to maintain and deepen strong ties between the parliaments of the two countries. In this context, the President considered important establishment of France-Artsakh friendship circle.

A number of issues related domestic and foreign policy of Karabakh, regional trends and the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict were also discussed during the meeting.

Speaker of the NKR National Assembly Ashot Ghoulyan and other officials were present at the meeting.