YEREVAN. Head of Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) parliamentary group and the Chairman of Armenia-Iran inter-parliamentary friendship group Galust Sahakyan met with Iran’s Ambassador to Armenia Seyed Ali Saqqaiyan on Wednesday.

The Ambassador conveyed the Armenian official the invitation by Chairman of Iran-Armenia parliamentary friendship group Arsalan Fathipur to pay a mutual visit to Iran.

The officials highly appreciated bilateral relations and stressed the need for their further expansion, as well as intensification of inter-parliamentary ties, support to implementation of the earlier reached agreements.

Sahakyan also referred to Armenia-Turkey rapprochement, Karabakh conflict resolution, Azerbaijan’s attempts to aggravate the situation in the line of contact and fail the negotiation process. The Armenian MP attached high importance to the peaceful resolution of Karabakh problem within the OSCE Minsk Group format.

Sahakyan emphasized Iran’s balanced position not only on Nagorno-Karabakh issue, but also on other regional problems.