Press service of RA National Assembly reported that on October 29 at the invitation of the President of the Senate of the Czech Republic Milan Štěch the RA NA President Hovik Abrahamyan arrived on a three-day official visit in Prague. The delegation led by the NA President comprises of the Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations Artak Zakaryan, the Chairwoman of the NA Standing Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs Elinar Vardanyan, deputies Karine Atshemyan and Artur Gevorgyan.
As reported, first of all Armenian delegation visited Karlovi Vary region where he met with the Mayor of Karlovy Vary city, Petr Petr Kulhánek, and the Head of the State Joseph Novotny .
During the meeting with the Mayor of the Karlovy Vary Mr Abrahamyan proposed to establish partnership relations between the towns of Jermuk and Karlovy Vary or declare them sister towns, as the two spa towns are well known with their healing mineral waters and have some commonness. The Head of the Parliament proposed the Mayor of the city to visit Armenia, and particularly, the town of Jermuk, to get acquainted with the town closer and pre-indicate the spheres of cooperation. The Mayor of the Karlovy Vary Petr Kulhánek gladly accepted Hovik Abrahamyan’s proposal, considering it a brilliant idea and stressed that the cooperation between the two towns would promote the tourism and would give one more opportunity to closely get acquainted the two peoples.
The sides agreed and announced that from now on Armenian Jermuk city and Czech’s city Karlovy Vary will be considered as “sister towns”.
The source informs that both sides stressed that the meeting was very important for the countries; in order to deepen the cooperation and the strong ties which already exist between the countries.
Our speaker is expected to meet with his Czech’s counterpart today, October 30.
