Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin have expressed concern over the imposing of unilateral sanctions by a number of countries. This is noted in a joint statement following Tuesday’s meeting—in Moscow—of the leaders of the two countries.

The statement said that the parties expressed their intention to work together to overcome the challenges posed by these measures—including in food and energy security, logistics, and other domains of the two countries.

"The parties expressed concern over the growing trend to use modern information and telecommunication technologies, the purpose of which is to carry out illegal and harmful actions, undermine the sovereignty of states and interfere in the internal affairs of states.

The parties stressed the importance of strengthening bilateral cooperation in international information security.

The leaders reaffirmed their intention to continue joint action aimed at combating the novel coronavirus infection, other dangerous infections, and the spread of epizootics.

The parties stressed the importance of further implementation of the agreements reached between Moscow and Yerevan in biosafety (…). It has been confirmed that the territories of the two countries will not be allocated for the use of third countries to carry out activities against each other’s interests in biosafety.

The parties—maintaining shared approaches to the shared past—expressed intention to continue the fight against the revision of the results of the Second World War and the falsification of history. The parties agreed to step up efforts to combat racism, xenophobia, neo-Nazism, as well as discrimination based on nationality, language or religion," the statement added.