Harming Russia’s interests has not been, is not, and will not be on our agenda, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Public Television.
“That is out of the question. No one will be able, even if they try — and so far there have been no such attempts — to drag us into a logic of acting against Russia. We tell our Russian partners: you know, we will not fight you, we will not argue with you, we will not engage in verbal sparring with you, because we value the relations that we have,” Pashinyan emphasized.
The Prime Minister stressed that he has very direct and warm relations with the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, and with the head of the Russian Government, Mikhail Mishustin.
“We say: we will never act against Russia, but we will always act in accordance with the interests of the Republic of Armenia. And this will be our strategy.
After August 8, it was clear that among our partners in the Russian Federation there were certain questions, and I gladly answered those questions; we are always open to conversation. In Washington, we signed the content that we had proposed to the Russian Federation over the previous five years. Of course, there was no ‘Trump route’ there, but we asked for only five words, just five words. Those words were: territorial integrity, sovereignty, jurisdiction, reciprocity, inviolability of borders. We said: put these five words in the document, and I am ready to sign that document at any moment. And there is no exaggeration in what I am saying. And this is a very concrete example that we have never acted against Russia and will not act,” Nikol Pashinyan said.
According to the Prime Minister, they will not fight with Russia; there are always tensions and discussions on agendas, but they will not create problems with Russia and will pursue Armenia’s interests.
