Deputy Speaker of the Armenian parliament Ruben Rubinyan received Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin on January 21, the RA NA press service informed NEWS.am.

During the meeting, the two sides highly assessed the Armenian-Russian allied relations and underscored the importance of their ongoing development.

Rubinyan and Kopyrkin also touched upon the settlement of Armenian-Turkish relations. As a special representative of Armenia in the Armenian-Turkish dialogue process Rubinyan thanked the Russian side for the meeting of special representatives of Armenia and Turkey in Moscow recently and their willingness to support the process of normalization of relations.

Rubinyan described the first meeting of the special representatives as constructive, noting that the Armenian side is interested in the solution of the problems through substantial processes.

In his turn the Ambassador assured that the Russian side would continue its efforts towards the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations.