YEREVAN, MARCH 9, NOYAN TAPAN. On March 6, RA President Serzh Sargsyan received a delegation led by Alfredo Montica, the State Secretary of Italian Foreign Ministry. The RA President said that the Armenian-Italian relations have good development prospects in that context attaching importance to activization of dialogue and mutual contacts. S. Sargsyan on the way to the European family considered important for Armenia expansion of many-sided cooperation with such a leading country as Italy. According to the report of the RA President's Press Office, the sides also spoke about the EU Eastern Partnership initiative noting that it opens wide possibilities for partnership. S. Sargsyan especially attached importance to the regional component of partnership. A. Montica thanked the RA President for assistance provided to citizens of Italy in the period of Georgian-Ossetian crisis last August. According to him, those events once more showed that the military way of solving conflicts has no prospects, and the current problems should be settled only in a political way. Mentioning that his country is interested in establishment of stability in the Caucasus, A. Montica said that Italy being an OSCE Minsk Group member attentively keeps up with the Nagorno Karabakh negotiations process developments.

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