President Armen Sarkissian, PM Pashinyan meet at Presidential Palace

President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan met at the Presidential Palace on March 1.

President Sarkissian said, ‘Mr. Prime Minister, I am glad to meet you again. Our traditional meetings continue. Before starting the conversation, I wish to congratulate you, because I have heard that your visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran was very successful. I would be glad to be informed on the details of that meeting. In general, the reactions from the friends in Armenia and outside were positive.

PM Pashinyan said, ‘I am thankful, Mr. President. Yes, we have regular working meetings and it’s very important that we share the information we generate during our meetings and working visits, and of course, discuss our future steps. Yes, I asses the visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran very important and very successful. I also plan to pay an official visit to Brussels on Monday to discuss future steps with our partners from the EU.

We have an abundant foreign policy agenda for the near future. We are also the chairing country of the Eurasian Economic Union and one of the sessions will take place in Yerevan. One of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meetings will also take place in Yerevan. It’s important that we use all this foreign policy agenda for the goals of our economic revolution. I know that you also have had some meetings during this period that can be placed in this logic. And it’s also important to combine our information in order to make the future process of agreements more effective’.

‘I also have much to tell you, Mr. Prime Minister. Of course, you already know, but I would like to provide some extra details particularly over my last 2 visits.  The 1st one was to France, where the 90th plenary session of the Armenian General Benevolent Union took place, and I attended it. During that session some structural changes occurred in the organization. The Benevolent Union is one of our most important national organizations of the Diaspora. During this period I held a number of meetings in Paris in line with our previous discussions – for the assistance of Armenia’s economic development and new technologies. I held meetings with major French companies – Thales, Dassault and so on.

My next visit was to Munich, the Security Conference, in the sidelines of which there were a number of political meetings. In addition, I held meetings at Heidelberg University, Munich Technical University, Max Planck Institute. Those meetings were also aimed at transforming Armenia into a modern technological country and foster the rapid economic growth of our country. So we have a lot to discuss’, Armen Sarkissian added.