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The delegation headed by the he RA deputy Prime Minister, co-chairman of the Armenian-Iraqi Intergovernmental Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation Armen Gevorgyan started the visit to the Republic of Iraq by the meeting with the members of the Armenian community. The Minister of Healthcare D. Doumanyan, the RA Minister of Agriculture S. Karapetyan, the Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Economics, Energy and Natural Resources, other officials were involved in the delegation. Before the meeting the Deputy Prime Minister and other delegation members put flowers in the courtyard of the St. Grigor Lusavoritch Diocesan Church on the cross-stone dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide, as the Public Relations Department of the RA Ministry of Territorial Administration informs.

The meeting took place in the church, where the members of the National Central Department and national organizations functioning in the community took part. The leader of the Armenian Diocesan of Iraq Senior Archbishop Asaturyan welcomed the official delegation visit from Armenia, noting that during the last years it it the first such delegation from the motherland and that these kind of visits encourage the community.

Deputy Prime Minister welcomed the participants, highlighting that the Armenian Community of Iraq is a community with history and traditions that faced many challenges during its existence. ‘We know what challenges the Armenian community of Iraq has faced during the last years. I hope that it is in the past and that Armenian community will restore its power and will have its share in the development of the relations of two countries’ said the Deputy Prime Minister.

He appreciated the work done and the role of the community and community organizations in the preservation of national spiritual and cultural values. The Deputy Prime Minister assured that Armenia will always stand beside the Armenians of Diaspora, noting that the creation of the Ministry of Diaspora was aimed at paying more attention to the issues of our compatriots of Diaspora, giving a more systemic nature to the motherland-Diaspora relations and a serious work is being done during the last years in this respect. The matters of community life, internal situation in Iraq and other community issues were discussed at the meeting.

In the evening the delegation headed by the Deputy Prime Minister participated in the official reception organized by the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Rosh Nouri Shuayesi.  The Deputy Prime Ministers of the two countries discussed the questions regarding the first session agenda of the Intergovernmental Commission, as well as questions related to deepening bilateral relations.