Armen Rustamyan, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly met with British Ambassador to Armenia Charles Lonsdale.

Armen Rustamyan, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly, on December 19 met with Charles Lonsdale, Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Armenia, who is completing his diplomatic mission in our country.

Armen Rustamyan thanked the Ambassador for the joint work, exchanged experience and also opinions, considering them useful in making a number of decisions. The Committee Chairman highly appreciated the Ambassador’s personal aspirations in improving everything in Armenia and the potential invested for that purpose.

Ambassador Charles Lonsdale is interested in our country and has expressed wish to return to Armenia and attend the upcoming parliamentary elections in observer’s status. Before the expecting elections the interlocutors emphasized the holding of fair and free elections as an important precondition predetermining the future of Armenia. Armen Rustamyan has said that the ARF party, which he represents, highlighting the elections and the control towards them, has initiated the public movement “Protection of Electoral Law.” In the course of the meeting the sides also touched upon the ratification of the agreement on exclusion of double taxation of the incomes and capital between the two countries. The Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations has noted that it is already on the agenda, and it will be approved in the near future in the Parliament. In Great Britain it has already been ratified by the Queen.

Other issues have also been discussed.