YEREVAN. Armenia’s Ambassador to Iraq Murad Muradyan met with Speaker of Iraqi parliament Osama al-Nujaifi. The sides discussed development of inter-parliamentary ties at the meeting. The Armenian diplomat conveyed the Iraqi Speaker Armenian Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan’s invitation to visit Yerevan. He stressed that an inter-parliamentary friendship group was set up at the Armenian parliament and expressed hope Iraq’s parliament will follow the example.

The Armenian Ambassador also met with Iraqi Education Minister Ali Al-Adeeb. The officials discussed bilateral cooperation issues in the sphere of education. Muradyan stressed that Iraqi students may receive high education in Armenia, the press service of Armenian Foreign Office informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Later Muradyan met with representatives of the Armenian community in Baghdad. He touched upon issues on Armenia’s foreign policy, Armenia-Diaspora cooperation, Karabakh conflict settlement and Armenia-Turkey normalization process.