Relations with Russia have a special place and importance, and we hope to substantially increase the effectiveness of those relations.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated the aforesaid in an interview with the Zinuzh (armed force) TV program of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia.

“Our relations should be at a much higher level, much more strategic, much more partner-based, much more brotherly,” he added.

“From the very first interactions with the leaders of the [other] CSTO countries, it became apparent to me that this same matter exists at them too,” Pashinyan noted with respect to Armenia’s relations along the lines of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). “First, to record the existence of the problem, and to discuss the matters patiently, in an allied climate and within logic, so that we will know what obligations the CSTO has before Armenia, and what obligations the Republic of Armenia has before the CSTO and its [other] member countries.”