"We are grateful to Japan, a reliable partner of Armenia, for all the support during all the years of our country's independence." Armenian National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan wrote this on his Twitter microblog.

"On behalf of Nat-l Assembly of Armenia I would like to convey warmest wishes to His Majesty the Emperor & people of #Japan on festive occasion of H.M’s 63birthday," Simonyan wrote.