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“Armenia attaches importance to the events aimed at the formation of the atmosphere of mutual trust,” Ara Babloyan, Speaker of Armenia’s National Assembly (NA) said on Monday at the meeting with Vyacheslav Volodin, the Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federal Assembly, the press service of the Parliament told Panorama.am.

Mr. Babloyan highlighted the Armenian-Russian relations based on the centuries-old friendship, which in the context of the EEU membership of the two countries had turned into a new level. The RA NA Speaker underlined the constructive role of Russia in the NK conflict settlement, as a Co-Chair country in the OSCE Minsk Group.

Ara Babloyan proposed to hold the next meeting of the heads of the parliaments of the Eurasian countries in Yerevan, underlining the importance of strengthening the inter-parliamentary between the states of the Eurasian region.

In his word, Mr. Volodin referred to the high-level cooperation existing between the parliaments of Russia and Armenia, emphasizing the activities of the parliamentary Friendship Groups in strengthening and deepening of the relations.

The Russian official noted that that as a result of the increase of the cooperation volumes within the EEU format, a necessity emerged to cooperate in a new format.