STEPANAKERT. - President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh) Bako Sahakyan on Friday received executive director of the "Hayastan" All-Armenian Fund Ara Vardanyan, Vice-President of the American University of Armenia (AUD) Ashot Ghazaryan and AUA president emeritus, chair of the Turpanjian Rural Development Program, Dr. Haroutune Armenian. 

The meeting addressed issues related to the cooperation between the AUA and the Artsakh State University, as well as improvement of the building conditions of the Artsakh Alma Mater. 

President Sahakyan noted that the successive expansion and deepening of ties with the AUA is highly demanding and important. 

The meeting was also attended by Prime Minister of NKR Arayik Haroutyunyan and other officials.