On May 12, Paruyr Hovhannisyan, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia met with Anna Maria Siko, the newly-appointed Ambassador of Hungary to Armenia (residence in Tbilisi), on the occasion of handing over the copy of her credentials.

Hovhannisyan congratulated Siko on her appointment and wished success in her mission. The two discussed possible ways of development of Armenian-Hungarian bilateral and multilateral cooperation and highlighted the activation of political dialogue.

Reference was made to the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh resulting from the five-month-long blockade of the Lachin Corridor by Azerbaijan, as well as to Azerbaijani encroachments towards the sovereign territory of Armenia. In this context, Paruyr Hovhannisyan emphasized the importance of sending the international fact-finding mission to the Lachin Corridor, as well as the implementation of the February 22 decision of the International Court of Justice.