In the Parliament palace of Tbilisi there was held the opening session of the meeting of inter-parliamentary collaboration group of Georgia and Armenia. The speaker of Georgian Parliament David Usufashvili and President of National Assembly of Armenia Galust Sahakian delivered greeting speech, reports GHN.
"I want to touch one issue. Several months ago Georgia signed Association Agreement with European Union and in several days Armenia is going to join Eurasian Union to provide with protection of own strategic interests and their implementation. I want to say one more time that both countries respect sovereign choice of each other. I want to assure one more time that growing integration of Georgia with European Union will not affect negatively on then relations with friendly Armenian nation. We stated about clearly with our European partners that relations with European Union we perceive as profitable condition for our neighbor Armenia. I am sure that our colleagues will use the same approach while joining Eurasian Union and our Armenian colleagues will clearly explain to the partners of the union that in future there will not be any kind of problem, obstacle between two countries, among them concerning trade-economic relations. This is vital strategic issue for both countries and we have full understanding in this direction," stated Davit Usufashvili.
The President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Galust Sahakian talked about relations between two countries and about necessity for deepening these relations.
"We have opinion to develop and deepen relations between two countries. We pay big attention to the deepening of inter-parliamentary relations and development, because it is big part of inter-state relations. It is important that our relations receive new sparkle," stated Galust Sahakian.