YEREVAN. – Vice President of the National Assembly (NA) Armenia, Eduard Sharmazanov, on Monday received Belarusian Ambassador Igor Nazaruk.

Sharmazanov underscored the need for a consolidated work between Armenia and Belarus and supporting each other at international platforms, the NA informed Armenian News-NEWS.am. 

Also, he stressed that Armenia’s parliamentary delegation to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) supports an exclusively pacific settlement of conflicts, especially of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict—within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group. In this context, Sharmazanov expressed the conviction that the MPs of the CSTO member countries need to adhere to the CSTO official position.

As per the NA deputy speaker, the deepening of parliamentary relations will enable to further develop Armenia-Belarus economic ties, as well.

Ambassador Nazaruk, for his part, assured that the collaboration between the parliaments of the two friendship countries will continue to develop further. 

The Belarusian diplomat likewise highlighted the need for the Karabakh conflict’s pacific resolution within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group.