Armenian speaker Ararat Mirzoyan has met with his Serbian counterpart Maja Gojkovic within the official visit to Serbia on March 9-11.

Gojkovic mentioned the assistance shown to Armenia by the Serbian people after the 1988 Spitak earthquake, and during its transportation, the Serbian pilots fell victims of a plane crash. She added that Armenia was one of the countries that showed humanitarian aid to those who suffered from the disastrous flood occurred in Serbia several years ago.

In his turn, Mirzoyan has reaffirmed the friendly ties existing between the two peoples, where the Armenian community in Serbia that gets support from official Belgrade, also plays its role.

The parties discussed the perspectives of deepening the relations between the two countries, the possible economic cooperation, the more intensive cooperation of the two parliaments at a bilateral level between the Friendship Groups and Standing Committees, as well as on multilateral platforms.

While touching upon Kosovo and Karabakh's conflicts, the two have agreed that despite the differences existing between them, the peace negotiations have no alternative and have reached an agreement at least not to harm each other’s interests on the international platforms.

Ararat Mirzoyan and Maja Gojkovic signed a Memorandum of Cooperation between the two countries’ parliaments and made statements for the press. 

Before the launch of the official meeting, the heads of the two parliaments laid flowers in memory of the pilots who fell victims during the plane crash in 1988.