A meeting between the speaker of the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia, Alen Simonyan, and the speaker of the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan, Sahiba Gafarova, got underway today in Istanbul, Turkey.

Earlier in Istanbul, Simonyan met with his colleagues from a number of other countries.

On April 12, Alen Simonyan had told reporters at the NA that meetings were scheduled with his Azerbaijani and Georgian counterparts, within the framework of the 152nd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, in Istanbul.