Russia remains Armenia's main trading partner, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during a meeting with the visiting speaker of the Armenian National Assembly, Alen Simonyan.

"Moscow remains your main trading and economic partner. We [i.e. Russia] take that status of ours seriously, we want to expand this cooperation in every way, promote major infrastructure projects and initiatives, taking into account the experience that already exists and is reflected in the structure of Armenia’s economy," the Russian foreign minister said.