Pashinyan: No threat from Russia`s 102nd military base in Gyumri

ArmInfo.Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has stated that he sees no threat from the Russian 102nd Military Base in the context of a new Russian law  authorizing the use of the country's Armed Forces to protect Russian citizens arrested abroad.

Addressing journalists' questions regarding whether the new  legislation causes concern given the presence of the base in Gyumri,  Pashinyan dismissed such fears. "I have no concerns, as the 102nd  Military Base, regardless of the laws in force in the Russian  Federation, must operate within the framework of the legislation and  jurisdiction of Armenia. There is no cause for concern," Pashinyan  stated.

Earlier, it was announced that the Russian State Duma had passed, in  its third and final reading, a law authorizing the use of the  country's Armed Forces to protect Russian citizens arrested by  foreign courts without Russia's participation, or whose jurisdiction  is not based on an international treaty to which the Russian  Federation is a party or a UN Security Council resolution.