First Deputy Speaker visits Armenia
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First Deputy Speaker Kenneth G Forslund will attend an NB8 visit to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, from 22 to 24 January 2025. Speakers from the parliaments of the Nordic and Baltic countries will be participating in the visit. The visit will take place at the invitation of the President of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan.
The programme will include discussions on democracy issues and on Armenia’s integration into European cooperation, as well as a visit to the memorial to the victims of the Armenian genocide in 1915. In addition to meeting the President of the National Assembly of Armenia, the participating Speakers will also meet the President of the Republic of Armenia, the Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs and representatives of Armenian organisations.
Background
The abbreviation NB8 stands for Nordic-Baltic cooperation. As part of the informal collaboration between the Speakers of the Nordic-Baltic parliaments, a joint meeting is held annually, and in addition to this, at some point each year a joint visit to another country’s parliament is also arranged. In between these meetings, the Speakers keep in regular informal contact with each other regarding topical issues and they also meet in other contexts. These include international conferences of Speakers that are part of meetings of interparliamentary assemblies or other international conferences. In cases where the Speaker of the Riksdag is unable to participate, he is replaced with one of the Deputy Speakers,
Further information
- Maria Elgstrand, International Senior Adviser, telephone: +46 73 806 64 21, email: maria.elgstrand@riksdagen.se.
- Karl Lindberg, Press Secretary to the Speaker, telephone: +46 8 786 46 52, email: karl.lindberg@riksdagen.se.