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ARTHUR BAGHDASSARYAN: IRAN HAS IMPORTANT AND UNIGNORABLE ROLE IN RESOLUTION OF REGIONAL PROBLEMS
PanARMENIAN.Net
25.11.2008 19:35 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani met
Monday with Armenian of National Security Council Secretary Arthur
Baghdassaryan stressed need for more expansion of Tehran-Yerevan
comprehensive ties.
According parliamentary affairs reporter, Larijani in the Monday
evening meeting at his office expressed satisfaction over the expanding
trend of the two countries' relations and said that bilateral ties
are deep-rooted. He added, "Iran-Armenia relations date back to remote
past in history, have always been convergent, and their basis is the
close and deep relations between the two nations."
The Majlis speaker meanwhile described such good relations between
the neighboring countries as "a main factor" serving regional peace
and security.
Iran's former secretary of Supreme National Security Council
emphasizing the need to identify appropriate new fields for expansion
of bilateral ties, arguing, "During the course of the past few years
long strides have been taken to strengthen and deepen political and
economic ties, and to expand the dimensions of industrial cooperation,
but there are still lots of unused potentials that can be used to
further improve the level of friendly relations."
Larijani emphasized the effective and important role of the two
countries' parliaments in expansion of relations, reiterating,
"Iran's Majlis backs up any move aimed at expansion of comprehensive
ties." In that respect, he evaluated as "important" the role of the
two countries' joint economic commission in implementation of the
agreed upon economic and industrial projects.
The Secretary of the Armenian National Security Council, too, in the
meeting referred to his country's relations with Iran as "strategic",
reiterating, "Expansion of ties at all political, economic, business
and infrastructure fields with Iran is among the priorities in foreign
relations doctrine of my country."
The Armenian official referred to the two countries' cooperation
in railway and road transformations and in energy field, arguing,
"Pursuing cooperation in such infrastructure fields plays an important
role in strengthening strategic ties."
Baghdassaryan was agreed with Larijani on the point that the two
countries' parliaments play an important role in improvement of the
level of cooperation and emphasized the need for expanding relations
between the two parliaments' different commissions, as well as broader
interactions between the two parliament's friendship groups.
He also considered Iran's role in regional dispute solving as
"important and unignorable", concluding, "The Islamic Republic of Iran
for instance plays and important and unignorable role in assuring and
strengthening peace and security in the Caucasus region," Baghdassaryan
said, IRNA reports.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
PanARMENIAN.Net
25.11.2008 19:35 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani met
Monday with Armenian of National Security Council Secretary Arthur
Baghdassaryan stressed need for more expansion of Tehran-Yerevan
comprehensive ties.
According parliamentary affairs reporter, Larijani in the Monday
evening meeting at his office expressed satisfaction over the expanding
trend of the two countries' relations and said that bilateral ties
are deep-rooted. He added, "Iran-Armenia relations date back to remote
past in history, have always been convergent, and their basis is the
close and deep relations between the two nations."
The Majlis speaker meanwhile described such good relations between
the neighboring countries as "a main factor" serving regional peace
and security.
Iran's former secretary of Supreme National Security Council
emphasizing the need to identify appropriate new fields for expansion
of bilateral ties, arguing, "During the course of the past few years
long strides have been taken to strengthen and deepen political and
economic ties, and to expand the dimensions of industrial cooperation,
but there are still lots of unused potentials that can be used to
further improve the level of friendly relations."
Larijani emphasized the effective and important role of the two
countries' parliaments in expansion of relations, reiterating,
"Iran's Majlis backs up any move aimed at expansion of comprehensive
ties." In that respect, he evaluated as "important" the role of the
two countries' joint economic commission in implementation of the
agreed upon economic and industrial projects.
The Secretary of the Armenian National Security Council, too, in the
meeting referred to his country's relations with Iran as "strategic",
reiterating, "Expansion of ties at all political, economic, business
and infrastructure fields with Iran is among the priorities in foreign
relations doctrine of my country."
The Armenian official referred to the two countries' cooperation
in railway and road transformations and in energy field, arguing,
"Pursuing cooperation in such infrastructure fields plays an important
role in strengthening strategic ties."
Baghdassaryan was agreed with Larijani on the point that the two
countries' parliaments play an important role in improvement of the
level of cooperation and emphasized the need for expanding relations
between the two parliaments' different commissions, as well as broader
interactions between the two parliament's friendship groups.
He also considered Iran's role in regional dispute solving as
"important and unignorable", concluding, "The Islamic Republic of Iran
for instance plays and important and unignorable role in assuring and
strengthening peace and security in the Caucasus region," Baghdassaryan
said, IRNA reports.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress