Margarit Yesayan, an MP and the chairman of the National Assembly Francophonie committee, is currently in the city of Montreux, Switzerland, to participate in the annual European regional conference of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Francophonie. Representatives of the French-speaking commissions in the parliaments of the European member states of the Francophonie – roughly ninety delegates – participate in the assembly. Margarit Yesayan had a separate meeting with Jean-Pierre Val, the chairman of the European region, Parliamentary Assembly of the Francophonie, within the framework of the conference. During the meeting, they talked about the possibilities of the Armenian parliament to become a permanent member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Francophonie. Ms. Yesayan said during a conversation with www.aravot.am: “Mr. Jean-Pierre Val said that although in order to give a certain a country the status of a permanent member, it was
required that one of the official languages of that country was French, he expressed the hope that they would try to consider the possibilities of solving that issue and make an exception for the Armenian parliament. Mr. Val also proposed during the conversation to consider the possibility of holding the 2014 annual plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Francophonie in Armenia. By the way, I want to say that the delegates of the member states of the Francophonie to the Parliamentary Assembly remembered the annual conference of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Francophonie held in Armenia in 2010, the Armenian hospitableness and hospitality with great pleasure.”
Nelly GRIGORYAN
