President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, who is on an official visit to Greece, on Tuesday laid a wreath to the Armenian Genocide monument in the Greek capital city of Athens, and paid tribute to the victims of this tragedy.
Subsequently, the President met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece.
The interlocutors underscored the need to make bilateral cooperation grow deeper in several domains, and to promote mutual investments and contacts between the business circles of the two countries.
Tsipras, for his part, considered the development of Iran-Armenia-Greece collaboration to be full of prospect, too. He added that Greece sees opportunities also in the establishment of cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the Eurasian Economic Union, and wishes to contribute to this objective. In addition, the Greek PM expressed readiness to assist in the development of Armenia-EU relations.
Separately, the Armenian President and the Greek PM exchanged views on current international matters, challenges, and regional developments.
Alexis Tsipras stressed that Greece supports the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through peace talks, and within the framework of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group.
The tête-à-tête between the President of Armenia and the Prime Minister of Greece was followed by the talks in an expanded format.
Subsequently, the parties signed documents aimed at the development of Armenian-Greek cooperation in a number of domains.
President Serzh Sargsyan and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras summed up the results of the negotiations with joint statements before the media.