National Assembly of Armenia
www.parliament.am
May 4 2011
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany Mr Hans-Jochen Schmidt
Hosted at the NA Standing Committee
On May 3 the Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign
Relations Armen Rustamyan received the Ambassador of the Federal
Republic of Germany Mr Hans-Jochen Schmidt
According to the Ambassador, the aim of his visit to inform them that
the Armenian-German Inter-governmental consultations will be held next
week, as well as to know details about the agreement on the increase
of the number of the Armenian forces in the International Security
Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan to be debated in the parliament
in the nearest future. The Ambassador Hans-Jochen Schmidt in the name
of the German side welcomed the willingness of Armenia with respect to
the increase of the number of the personnel of the Armenian forces.
Mr Rustamyan said that in reality the committee led by him will
discuss in future the Agreement on the prolongation of terms and
enlargement of the military contingent on Regulation of legal issues
with NATO relating to participation of Armenian forces in
International security assistant force in Afghanistan. The Committee
Chairman highlighted in the issues of international and regional
security, anti-terrorist fighting Armenia's participation to the
international most important events, which is one of the foreign
political directions of our country. Mr Rustamyan expressed hope that
as a result of multilateral results without any obstacles both the
committee and the parliament will endorse the agreement, noting that
on this occasion Armenia made a political decision.
The sides touched upon the enlargement of the Armenian-German
cooperation, the process of recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the
cooperation in the international institutions, and the problems of
fighting against corruption and protection of electoral right and
other issues of bilateral interest.
From: A. Papazian
www.parliament.am
May 4 2011
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany Mr Hans-Jochen Schmidt
Hosted at the NA Standing Committee
On May 3 the Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign
Relations Armen Rustamyan received the Ambassador of the Federal
Republic of Germany Mr Hans-Jochen Schmidt
According to the Ambassador, the aim of his visit to inform them that
the Armenian-German Inter-governmental consultations will be held next
week, as well as to know details about the agreement on the increase
of the number of the Armenian forces in the International Security
Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan to be debated in the parliament
in the nearest future. The Ambassador Hans-Jochen Schmidt in the name
of the German side welcomed the willingness of Armenia with respect to
the increase of the number of the personnel of the Armenian forces.
Mr Rustamyan said that in reality the committee led by him will
discuss in future the Agreement on the prolongation of terms and
enlargement of the military contingent on Regulation of legal issues
with NATO relating to participation of Armenian forces in
International security assistant force in Afghanistan. The Committee
Chairman highlighted in the issues of international and regional
security, anti-terrorist fighting Armenia's participation to the
international most important events, which is one of the foreign
political directions of our country. Mr Rustamyan expressed hope that
as a result of multilateral results without any obstacles both the
committee and the parliament will endorse the agreement, noting that
on this occasion Armenia made a political decision.
The sides touched upon the enlargement of the Armenian-German
cooperation, the process of recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the
cooperation in the international institutions, and the problems of
fighting against corruption and protection of electoral right and
other issues of bilateral interest.
From: A. Papazian