Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday met with Armenian National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan, who is in Russia on an official visit, the Russian foreign ministry informed.

A frank and substantive exchange of views took place on current issues of Russian-Armenian relations. The Russian side reaffirmed its commitment to the rapid practical implementation of initiatives aimed at strengthening military-political, trade, economic and cultural-humanitarian ties between Moscow and Yerevan.

The risk of rapprochement with the West at the expense of cooperation with traditional allies was explained. Cooperation within the framework of integration projects in the Eurasian space was discussed, too. The process of normalizing Armenian-Azerbaijani relations from a regional perspective was talked about as well. The importance of the uninterrupted operation of the "3+3" regional cooperation platform was noted.