Saturday, March 16 2024 13:01

ArmInfo. Moscow is discussing with Armenia the involvement of Yerevan by Western countries in their  anti-Russian course in order to warn the republic about the risks, representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated in an interview with RIA Novosti.

"Unfortunately, we have been seeing this trend for quite a long time  and we are talking about it. We speak, including very confidentially,  with our Armenian colleagues and partners, with only one goal - to  warn," she said.

According to the Foreign Ministry representative, Moscow sincerely  wants Armenia to preserve its sovereignty and build a policy based on  national interests. She explained that national interests are not  what "someone wrote there in Brussels or somewhere else in some  capital," but those that reflect the cultural identity of the people,  coupled with the interests of the people living and raising their  children in Armenia.

She also added that there is a historical answer to Yerevan's doubts  about the sincerity of Russia's intentions in relations with Armenia:  "Moscow has come to the rescue and defended the republic many times."  "This is the number of our guys who defended Armenia. And the efforts  of the Russian leadership and personally of Russian President  Vladimir Putin, which he invested in order to repeatedly stop the  bloodshed in this region," Zakharova pointed out. She noted that this  is the "strength test" that Moscow has passed in relations with  Yerevan.