The Speaker of the People's Council of Syria, Dr. Mohammad Jihad al-Laham, today received the Armenian Ambassador to Syria Arshak Poladian.

During the meeting, the developments of Syria’s inter-political crisis, as well as a number of regional issues of bilateral interest were discussed, Armenian MFA press-service reports. Reference was also made to the prospects of the Armenian-Syrian relations, and the importance of the inter-parliamentary cooperation was specifically underscored.  

For his part, Dr. Mohammad Jihad al-Laham attached importance to his official visit to Yerevan in April 2015 in the framework of the state commemoration events of the Armenian Genocide. He also stressed the great political significance of those events in terms of the international acknowledgement and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide.    

By the end of the meeting, the Speaker of the People's Council of Syria once again expressed his solidarity with the friendly Armenian people.