Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said the company was receiving positive signals from Armenia regarding its proposal to build a new power unit in the country, TASS reported.

According to Likhachev, the results of his meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan have generated “a strong positive public response.”

“All the contacts we are maintaining today are conveying a signal that our proposal to build a gigawatt-class VVER-1000 power unit as soon as possible is being received extremely positively, with all possible support and efforts to optimize the project,” Likhachev said.