Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is on a working visit to St. Petersburg, where the day before he participated in a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, and this Tuesday he will be a guest at the informal CIS summit.
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov I thought it was a great opportunity to communicate Vladimir Putin with Nikol Pashinyan after a rather long pause in bilateral contacts.
As the Armenian newspaper “Zhoghovurd” (“People”) writes today, on December 26, citing its sources, the Russian authorities were especially looking forward to Pashinyan’s visit, since they had accumulated many questions for him, and the Russian President wants to receive clarifications personally from Pashinyan.
“According to the information we have received, the Russian authorities are very serious this time and will demand from Pashinyan not just another vague, but clear and specific answers about Russian-Armenian cooperation and relations, which are in an extremely overstrained state,” the publication writes.
It also calls it noteworthy that the Armenian authorities for a long time avoided all meetings organized through the mediation of Russia, “but now, it seems, the Pashinyan government regretted the idea of finally destroying relations with Russia and decided to restore them.”
In this regard, Nikol Pashinyan’s visit to Russia can be called “historic,” Zhoghovurd believes.
The fact that the Russian side has had many questions for its Armenian partners during this “pause” and the resulting “overvoltage” can be judged at least by the very provocative statements of the Special Representative of the NATO Secretary General for the South Caucasus and Central Asia Javier Colomina. The NATO “curator” of Transcaucasia, in an interview with the Georgian TV channel “Pirveli Arkhi” (“Channel One”) on the evening of December 24, spoke about Yerevan’s “very clear decision to change its foreign policy, to distance itself from Moscow.”
Let us remind you that relations between Armenia and Russia have recently been characterized by mutual tension. This happened following a number of steps by the Armenian side, which were considered unfriendly and even “anti-Russian” in Moscow: ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, holding joint military exercises with the United States, meetings of representatives of the political leadership of the republic with representatives of the Kyiv regime.
2023-12-26 05:56:00
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