The Acting Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, returned from Moscow and immediately went on Facebook livestream broadcast to speak about his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Pashinyan informed that they discussed a very wide range of relations.
“Today’s [Thursday’s] conversation was mainly related to the further strategy for the development of our relations,” he noted. “And I can record that, in essence, we have a complete understanding there as to what kind of strategic direction the development of relations between our two countries should have.”
The acting PM noted that, by and large, this discussion of theirs was a summary of the discussions that were held up until now.
“The climate of the meeting was very positive,” he added. “Our meetings with the president of the Russian Federation are taking place quite often, and this bespeaks the special and strategic nature of our relations.”
Pashinyan said they had not discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but they had a brief talk on the present-day situation at the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
“Our position is that here we need institutional solutions so that such corrections should be made in the CSTO charter that don’t envision this situation,” he said, in particular.
Pashinyan stated no decision was made with respect to the future price of the Russian natural gas being supplied to Armenia.
“The discussions on gas will continue in working order,” he added. “But, in general, I’m optimistic, and I hope that there will be desirable developments for us here as well, or at leastthere will be no undesirable developments.”
Nikol Pashinyan expressed a conviction that after every such meeting relations between Armenia and Russia were becoming richer with new content.
“Or, more accurately, the de facto existing content gets a concrete formulation,” he added. “And we—together with the President of the Russian Federation—have succeeded in achieving common understanding regarding that content.”
The acting PM said this was a new period in the history of Armenian-Russian relations because, “Those political events that took place in the Republic of Armenia in April and Mayreceived a summary in the December 9 [snap parliamentary] elections, the political situation was recorded, and we have to build new relations on this record.”
