ArmInfo. Moscow proceeds from the fact that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will take advantage of the invitation of the Russian President and arrive in St. Petersburg on December 25-26, where he will take part in a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council and the traditional meeting at the level of heads of state of the CIS member states. Strictly speaking, all the questions of interest could be raised there. This was stated on December 20 during a weekly briefing by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, in response to a request to comment on yesterday's accusations of the Armenian Prime Minister against Russia.
"And our position on all aspects of the Armenian-Azerbaijani normalization has been repeatedly and in detail outlined by both the president of the country and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and commented on by the presidential administration of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a whole. "Moscow is guided by the principle of allied relations with Armenia and is always ready to solve all emerging problems in a calm, professional and cooperative manner," the diplomat added.
On December 19, the Prime Minister of Armenia, in an interview with PTA, commenting on the recent statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry about the danger of attempts to disavow the agreements of the Russian Federation, Azerbaijan and Armenia, advised the Russian Foreign Ministry to take the tripartite statement of November 9, 2020 and read up to paragraph 8 inclusive. "Let them read and see who did not fulfill which obligation. That is, is it written in the tripartite statement of November 9 that Azerbaijan should attack Nagorno-Karabakh, and Russian peacekeepers should be in shelters at that time?" Pashinyan Pashinyan wondered.
He drew attention to the fact that the Russian peacekeeping contingent was sent to Nagorno-Karabakh on the basis of a decision of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. "And in this decision of the Federal Assembly, it is stated that the purpose of the presence of the peacekeeping troops there is to protect the civilian population. Where is the civilian population of Nagorno-Karabakh now?" asked the prime minister.