On August 31, Head of the Foreign Relations and Protocols Department of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, His Eminence, Fr. Archbishop Nathan Hovhannisyan received Members of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Belgium Paul Delva and Zoe Zheno at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. The delegates were accompanied by Chairman of the Armenian National Committee of Europe Kaspar Garabedian and European Affairs representative of the Committee Heghine Evinyan, as reported the information system of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin to Hayern Aysor.

Archbishop Nathan conveyed the blessing of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians and expressed joy for the fact that the relations between Belgium and Armenia are becoming stronger year after year.

His Holiness expressed gratitude to the deputies for the major contributions that they have made to the adoption of the Armenian Genocide resolution by the Parliament of Belgium last year as friends of Armenia in the Parliament of Belgium.

The representative of the Mother See’s foreign relations department also presented the history of the establishment of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and the activities of the Armenian Church in different sectors. His Holiness particularly touched upon the programs devoted to the youth’s education and upbringing and the construction of churches.

Archbishop Nathan answered the parliamentarians’ questions related to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and to the state of affairs of Christians and particularly of Armenian communities in the Near East. His Holiness also transmitted information about the assistance that the Armenian Church regularly provides to those communities and to the Syrian-Armenians having taken shelter in Armenia.