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  • Members of the Armenia-Canada Friendship Group Meet with Canadian Pa

    Members of the Armenia-Canada Friendship Group Meet with Canadian
    Parliamentarians


    26.08.2014



    On August 26 the Parliamentary Delegation of Canada met with the
    members of the RA NA Armenia-Canada Friendship Group in the National
    Assembly.

    Welcoming the guest, the Head of the Delegation Hovhannes Sahakyan
    noted that the Armenian-Canadian relations share a long history and
    are characterized as warm, friendly and cooperative. By the guests'
    request Hovhannes Sahakyan touched upon the protocols aimed at the
    rapprochement of the Armenian-Turkish relations andTurkey's policy of
    denial. He has underscored that in the rapprochement process of the
    Armenian-Turkish relations Turkey sets preconditions, which are
    unacceptable for Armenia. Touching upon the issue of international
    recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the Head of the Delegation
    highlighted the recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide,
    which will give an opportunity to exclude the perpetration of new
    genocides. The members of the Friendship Group mentioned that the
    Armenian-Turkish Protocols 2009 had been frozen by the Turkish
    leadership. The Group members, touching upon the Armenia's blockade,
    expressed a view that there shouldn't be close borders in the 21st
    century. Hovhannes Sahakyan touched upon the recent multiple
    violations of ceasefire regime along Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan
    contact line and the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, and the growth of
    provocative and subversive activities by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

    At the meeting the process of Armenia 's membership to the Eurasian
    Economic Union, necessity of developing the Armenian-EU further
    cooperation, regional and geopolitical issues were also touched upon.

    On the same day the Parliamentary Delegation of Canada visited the
    Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex of Tsitsernakaberd.

    The Canadian MPs laid flowers at the Memorial of the 1915 Armenian
    Genocide, and bowed and honored with silencethe memory of one and a
    half million innocent victims. The guest visited the Armenian Genocide
    Museum-Institute, watched the exhibits.

    http://www.parliament.am/news.php?cat_id=2&NewsID=6768&year14&month=08&day= 26&lang=eng


    From: Baghdasarian
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