Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that he was in contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin during the government hour in the country’s National Assembly, but Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the State Ministry of Foreign Affairs, did not have the right to do so. He can interpret his words and only take them into account. It has been reported ArmenPress.
“My interlocutors in the Russian Federation are the President and Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Even a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of a respected and friendly state like Russia cannot comment on what I say, but can take notes.”
It was noted that Pashinyan reacted in this way to Zaharova’s comment regarding the possible withdrawal of the country from the CSTO.
Dmitry Novikov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Relations, announced that Armenia was withdrawing from the Collective Security Treaty Organization. does not match its national interests.