YEREVAN. – Armenia’s FM Edward Nalbandian and Didier Burkhalter, Head of the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, held talks in Bern on Wednesday.    

The discussion agenda of the two colleagues included bilateral cooperation issues, and regional and international matters, MFA informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.  

They noted with satisfaction that the bilateral relations are developing in an unprecedented fashion in the recent years. In Nalbandian’s words, a profound mutual trust and mutual understanding has formed between the two countries.   

The ministers also reached accordance on further energizing the consultations between their departments, and the cooperation within international organizations. 

In the context of Switzerland’s OSCE Chairmanship in 2014, the ministers exchanged views on this organization’s agenda issues.

The interlocutors also pointed to the need to stimulate trade and economic cooperation between Armenia and Switzerland, and providing state-level assistance to business.   

The ministers also examined the development of decentralized cooperation.  

Edward Nalbandian and Didier Burkhalter also reflected on the regional issues of, and the developments in, the South Caucasus. Nalbandian briefed his Swiss counterpart on the settlement process of the Karabakh conflict. And in this regard, Burkhalter stressed that his country carefully follows and supports the efforts by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, and finds that the problem must solely be resolved peacefully.     

The heads of Armenia’s and Switzerland’s foreign affairs also looked into Armenia-EU relations, and discussed several other regional and international issues.