Delegation led by the RA NA Speaker Samvel Nikoyan took part in the CIS IPA Council Sitting.

On March 27 the parliamentary delegation led by the RA National Assembly Speaker Samvel Nikoyan left for Almaty took part in the Jubilee Session of the Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (IPA) of the Commonwealth Independent States (CIS) on the Kazakh city of Almaty.

Before the beginning of the sitting the heads of the delegations laid flowers at the memorial obelisk of Independence.

Opening the sitting the Speaker of the RF Federal Council and Head of the IPA CIS Chair Valentina Matvienko presented the important initiatives and works that the Assembly had carried out during the past twenty years. It was noted in particular that the structure had directed its main activity to the rapprochement and harmonization of the legislative field of the CIS member countries. The IPA CIS had actively taken part in the integration processes in the territory of Cooperation. It was noted that the parliamentary delegations of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) participant countries within the IPA CIS framework had consistently discussed the legislative issues of that treaty, and from the 2006 a decision had been made about the creation of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly. One of the most important functions of the IPA CIS has been the peaceful activity, which includes not only the elaboration of the legal bases of the regional conflicts settlement, but also implementation of direct peaceful events in the hot points of Cooperation. One of the most important events is the Protocol, the only political document by now providing the ceasefire regime in Nagorno Karabakh, signed in Bishkek in 1994.

During the sitting the heads of the participant parliamentary delegations have delivered speeches, representatives of other international parliamentary structures addressed congratulatory words on the occasion of the jubilee. Particularly, in the name of the BSEC IPA, where Armenia moderates, the NA deputy, Deputy Chairman of the BSEC IPA Areg Ghukasyan, also presenting the work done under the RA presidency. He said that the 39th plenary meeting of the BSEC General Assembly will be held in Yerevan on May 22-24.