YEREVAN. – Armenia welcomes the proposals based on the agreement reached in Geneva between the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the US Secretary of State John Kerry, representative of Armenian MFA said.

Tigran Balayan, spokesperson for Armenian Foreign Ministry, responded to a question by RFE/RL Armenian service on Yerevan’s position on the recent deal reached on Syria.

“Armenia welcomes the proposals based on the agreement reached in Geneva between the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the US Secretary of State John Kerry, which could lead to the elimination of chemical weapons and exclusion of its use in Syria and which could open the way to find a political solution to the Syrian crisis through peaceful means, putting an end to the sufferings of the Syrian people, including its integral part - the dozens of thousands of Syrian-Armenians,” Balayan said.