Politics
The government is interested in attracting British investors to the Armenian market
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received the Minister of State for European Affairs of the United Kingdom Leo Docherty.
The Prime Minister welcomed Mr. Docherty's visit to Armenia and emphasized close cooperation and development with the United Kingdom in various fields. Nikol Pashinyan expressed his belief that bilateral relations have great potential for progress.
Leo Dockerty noted that it has already been announced to start a strategic dialogue with Armenia and added that they are interested in expanding ties in different directions.
In particular, issues related to trade and economic interaction, possibilities of implementation of programs in solar energy and other fields were discussed. Prime Minister Pashinyan added that the RA government is interested in attracting British investors to the Armenian market.
Reference was also made to the process of regulating Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, the unblocking of regional transport and economic infrastructures, border demarcation and border security between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the situation around Nagorno Karabakh, in particular, the humanitarian crisis created in Nagorno-Karabakh as a result of Azerbaijan's illegal blockade of the Lachin Corridor. To the introduction of the international dialogue mechanism between Baku and Stepanakert. The prime minister noted that the goal of Azerbaijan's policy not only to block the corridor, but also to deprive the people of NK from gas and electricity supplies, is to subject the Armenians of NK to ethnic cleansing.
