YEREVAN. – The chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia, Sergey Naryshkin, is on a working visit to Armenia from Monday to Tuesday.

Naryshkin on Monday was hosted at the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University in capital city Yerevan where, together with president Galust Sahakyan of the Armenian National Assembly, he participated in a conference devoted to the 70th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War.

In his remarks at the event, the Armenian parliament speaker noted that the victory achieved seventy years ago was the victory of the unity of the peoples. He noted that over 600 thousand Armenians had fought against German fascism and greatly contributed to the aforesaid victory in World War II.

Sahakyan also noted that the centenary of the Armenian Genocide will be marked at the threshold of the 70th anniversary of the abovementioned victory. And in his words, there is an invisible link between this genocide and the Great Patriotic War, since millions of innocent Armenians had become the victims of Turkish nationalism and Armenophobia.

Before the official opening of the aforementioned conference, however, Galust Sahakyan and Sergey Naryshkin attended, at the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University courtyard, the tree planting ceremony as a sign of friendship between the Armenian and Russian peoples.