ArmInfo. During our meeting with President of Russia, we discussed a wide range of issues, Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, stated in a live broadcast on his Facebook page returning to Yerevan after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. .
Pashinyan noted that between Armenia and Russia there is a complete mutual understanding of the direction in which Armenian-Russian relations should develop. According to the Acting Prime Minister they discussed the strategy for the further development of bilateral relations. "In this context, I can say that we have a full understanding of how and in what direction Armenian-Russian relations should develop. This meeting was a summing up of previous meetings. One can say we summarized the last 8 months," Pashinyan stressed.
The acting prime minister noted that the format of cooperation between the government and the leadership of the two countries was also discussed during the meeting. Pashinyan said that the meeting was held in a rather positive way. "This testifies to the special and strategic nature of our relations," he stressed, adding that the agenda of the Armenian-Russian relations is quite extensive and the parties did not have time to discuss all the issues.
Pashinyan noted that during this meeting with Putin, the issue of the Karabakh settlement was not discussed. The acting prime minister said that the agenda included an issue related to the appointment of the Secretary General of the CSTO. ''Our position is that institutional decisions are needed, it is necessary to amend the CSTO Charter in order to avoid similar situations and disputes in the future. In addition, we discussed the essence of the alliance of the Organization'', Pashinyan said. He also touched upon gas prices. In this regard, the acting prime minister said there is no solution on this issue. Speaking about the price of gas, Pashinyan noted that there is no decision on this issue. ''Discussions will continue in working order. It was stated that for bilateral relations this is a very sensitive topic, and this is understood both in Yerevan and in Moscow. But in general, I am very optimistic about this. I hope that in this issue there will be desirable developments for us, or in any case there will be no undesirable ones, "Pashinyan stressed. The acting prime minister noted that other issues related to the content of the Armenian-Russian relations were also discussed. ''I am convinced that after each meeting with the President of Russia, relations between our countries are enriched with new content. Rather, the existing content gets a specific design. And we, jointly with Vladimir Putin, managed to achieve a common understanding of this content. Every time we state that our relations are so multi-layered and voluminous that we don't have enough time to discuss all the questions and details, which means that contacts should continue. "
According to Pashinyan, this is a new stage in relations between Armenia and Russia, since the political events in Armenia this spring and the strengthening of the political situation after the elections should become the basis for building new relations. "We must be positive in this regard. There must also be a positive attitude in building relations with the EU, Georgia, Iran, India, China, our partners in the EAEU and the CSTO. But of course, our relations with Russia are of a special strategic nature, and we hope that the strategic essence of these relations will be given concrete expression in the economic, military-technical fields. We also hope that the past 8 months were enough to sum up the post-revolutionary relations, and raise to a full, higher and more extensive stage of building relationships, "he concluded.