President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian, who is on a state visit to Italy, today met with President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy Roberto Fico, as reported the Staff of the President of Armenia.

Fico welcomed the Armenian president’s state visit to Italy and stated that it serves as a good opportunity to discuss the partnering ties between the two countries and their respective parliaments. He also said Italy highly appreciates the friendship with Armenia and is interested in the establishment of peace and stability in the region.

President Sarkissian emphasized that Armenia attaches great importance to the strengthening of cooperation with Italy in all directions.

President Sarkissian also attached importance to the cooperation between the National Assembly of Armenia and the two chambers of the Italian parliament and, in this context, Fico’s scheduled visit to Armenia and the active efforts of the parliamentary friendship groups in both parliaments.

The Armenian president also expressed his gratitude for the decision of the Chamber of Deputies to recognize the Armenian Genocide on April 10, 2019 and Fico’s position on the decision. He also touched upon the 44-day war in Artsakh, the situation created in Armenia and the region following the war and particularly humanitarian issues. Sarkissian remembered, with gratitude, the resolution that the Italian parliament adopted on March 2 of this year, calling on the release of Armenian prisoners of war.

The interlocutors considered the Armenia-European Union cooperation one of the major directions on the agenda of bilateral relations.