YEREVAN, MAY 23, ARTSAKHPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has held a meeting with UK Minister for Europe Leo Docherty in Yerevan.
The Prime Minister welcomed Docherty’s visit to Armenia and attached importance to close cooperation and development with the UK in various sectors, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a readout.
PM Pashinyan expressed certainty that bilateral relations have big potential for progress.
UK Minister for Europe Leo Docherty said that the launch of the Strategic Dialogue with Armenia has already been announced and that the UK is interested in expanding ties in various directions.
Issues related to trade-economic partnership and opportunities for implementing projects in solar energy and other sectors were discussed. PM Pashinyan added that the Government of Armenia is eager to involve British investors into the Armenian market.
The process of Armenian-Azerbaijani normalization of relations, unblocking of regional transport and economic infrastructures, the work for ensuring delimitation and border security between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the situation around Nagorno Karabakh, namely the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Nagorno Karabakh resulting from the illegal blockade of Lachin Corridor by Azerbaijan and the introduction of an international mechanism for dialogue between Baku and Stepanakert were discussed.
PM Pashinyan said that by blockading the Lachin corridor, as well as cutting off gas and power supply into Nagorno Karabakh, Azerbaijan seeks to subject the Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh to ethnic cleansing.
