ArmInfo."I spoke on the topic of selling Russian weapons to Azerbaijan with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but I do not want to disclose the nuances of this conversation," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told Ekho Moskvi.
Pashinyan assured that the conversation about arms sales will continue, not only with Russia, but also with Belarus - with Armenia's partners in the CSTO. Nevertheless, he stressed that Armenia does not intend to leave the CSTO and join NATO: "Armenia is a member of the CSTO, and we now want Armenia's membership in this organization to become more effective. We have some questions to our partners in the CSTO, and now our goal is to make this organization more effective." Nevertheless, the Armenian Premier noted that the partnership of Armenia with NATO within the framework of various peacekeeping programs will be continued. "This cooperation is not directed against anyone, we cooperate with Georgia in this framework, because unfortunately, we and Georgia have different foreign policy vectors, and we need to balance this situation. Within NATO, our relations are very important for us with Georgia," Pashinyan explained. Touching on his views on Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pashinyan admitted that he was more "heavy". "But it was a very pleasant surprise for me that he is a very straightforward and sincere person, what pleases me in our relations is that we are talking about everything directly and sincerely and I said after my last visit to Moscow that our relations, the relations between Armenia and Russia should be relations without dark corners. What does this mean? It does not mean that we will always agree on everything, which means that we will be sincere with each other, I think this is the greatest friendship when two states, two people look into each other's eyes directly.