STEPANAKERT. – President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Bako Sahakyan on Thursday had a meeting with California State Assembly speaker John Pèrez and accompanying him delegates at the NKR permanent representation in Yerevan.

The officials discussed issues related to expanding and deepening relations between the Republic and the State of California.

The sides noted the obvious positive dynamics of the Karabakh-California relations, adding that it creates a reliable basis to bring bilateral cooperation to a qualitatively new level in the future.

NKR foreign minister Karen Mirzoyan, the Republic of Armenia’s consul general in Los Angeles Sergey Sarkisov, NKR permanent representative to the U.S. Robert Avetisyan, County of Los Angeles field deputy sheriff Tevan Arustamyan, former consular general of the Republic of Armenia in Los Angeles Grigor Hovhannisyan and other officials participated in the meeting.