Naira Zohrabyan met with Netherlands Ambassador Klaas van der Tempel.

Naira Zohrabyan, Head of Armenian National Assembly Standing Committee on European Integration, met on Thursday with Ambassador Klaas van der Tempel, Special Representative for the Eastern Partnership at MFA of the Netherlands.

Zohrabyan presented the ongoing talks with respect to the Armenia-EU Association Agreement.

The parties reflected on the Agreement’s terms concerning the creation of a deep and comprehensive free trade zone. Zohrabyan noted that the talks for the agreements on relaxing visa requirements and on readmission will commence with EU on February 27.

The guests were also interested in several matters in regard to Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary elections. And Naira Zohrabyan thoroughly informed them on the preparations for the elections, and she specifically underscored the activities by the OSCE and PACE long-term observers’ missions.

In his turn, Klaas van der Tempel noted that he will do everything under his power so that there would be many long-term observers in Armenia, and that they would take into account all the concerns that will be noted by the political forces which will run in the elections.