Sutt encouraged Armenia to continue on reform path and cooperate with the EU

Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu (Parliament of Estonia) Andres Sutt said at the meeting with President of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan today that Estonia was ready to share its reform experience with Armenia and saw opportunities for the country’s closer cooperation with the European Union and other democratic countries.

Sutt acknowledged Armenia’s efforts to implement its partnership agreement with the European Union and carry out democratic reforms. “We support Armenia’s closer relations with the EU and will also contribute to this,” he said. Sutt underlined that Ukraine’s victory in the war started by Russia was in our common interests.

Speaking of bilateral relations, Sutt said that it was necessary to deepen economic cooperation between Estonia and Armenia, seeing development opportunities in the fields of IT, digitalisation as well as space technology, where the first contacts have already been established. He also thinks that it is necessary to continue the cooperation with Armenia that started within the framework of Eastern Partnership.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and its potential solutions were also discussed at the meeting. Sutt emphasised that Estonia supported Armenia’s territorial integrity and said that it was important to use all possibilities to resolve the conflict peacefully. He also expressed support to the deployment of a full-scale EU mission to the region.

Photos of the meeting (Erik Peinar / Chancellery of the Riigikogu)

Source: Parliament of Estonia