Today Armenia's National Assembly speaker Hovik Abrahamyan receives Syria's foreign minister Walid Muallem, who was on a working visit in Armenia. Greeting the high-ranking official from Syria, NA speaker mentioned, that Armenian people have warm and friendly feelings to the people of Syria. Hovik Abrahamyan stressed, that Armenians are grateful to Syria for giving a asylum to Armenian refugees, who were deprived of their motherland during the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey.

Officials highly estimated the level of political relations between the two countries. The stressed the necessity of developing ties between parliaments of the two countries and intensifying the work of parliamentarian friendship Armenia-Syria group.